
High Specific Heat Capacity
We take the heat so you don't have to!
We support your water cycle, moderate climate, and your body's ability to perform homeostasis and other basic life functions.
What We Do: Unlike many other substances, the heat energy that the water is exposed to is first used to break the water’s hydrogen bonds; only after the hydrogen bonds break does the temperature of water rise substantially.
Water Cycle
High specific heat regulates the water cycle, which is essential to all living things!
Respiration
Without a high specific heat capacity, you would exhale so much water vapor that you would dehydrate and die!
DNA Denaturing
High specific heat regulates the temperature within your body, preventing DNA and enzymes from denaturing.
What would you do without us?
Although you may not have heard of us before, our party takes care of a lot of important functions. If you elect anyone else, here's what could happen:
- Climates would become inhabitable
- Water cycle ceases to function
- All living creatures would die (temperature instability within cells would cause DNA to unravel and denature)
- If that doesn't kill you, you'll die of dehydration from exhaling too much water vapor.