Kopp's law

Kopp's law can refer to either of two relationships discovered by the German chemist Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp (1817–1892).

The Kopp–Neumann law, named for Kopp and Franz Ernst Neumann, is a common approach for determining the specific heat C (in J·kg−1·K−1) of compounds using the following equation:[3]

where N is the total number of compound constituents, and Ci and fi denote the specific heat and mass fraction of the i-th constituent.

This law works surprisingly well at room-temperature conditions, but poorly at elevated temperatures.

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