Specific Heat of wax

Q-1. Be specific. What kind of wax. Bees wax, candle wax, hi-temperature, low-temperature, etc. etc.

Q-2. Gallons? of what?

Without specific information as to exactly what materials and what you want to do we are in the dark and have to guess, usually wrong to provide an intelligent answer.

BTW where did the 8.3 come from?

1 . Candle wax

2 . Gallons (Volume) in the Reactor

3 . 8.3 = 8.3 lbs to a UK Gallon

Tell me the Specific Heat?

Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat (Symbol: C or c) is the measure of the heat energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one Kelvin (or degree Celsius).

Can be defined for other systems of measurement as well.

What is it that you ultimately want to know?

Amount (# of steam to melt a batch of (X pounds)?

Or?

I asked a simple question" what is the specific heat of wax". You are just beating around the bush. Let me be more specific:

various liquids Specific heat Btu/lb F

Acetone .51

Alcohol,ethyl 32F .55

Benzol .52

Castor oil .43

Citron oil .44

Fuel oil sp.gr.96 .40

Fuel oil sp.gr.91 .44

Fuel oil sp.gr.86 .45

Fuel oil sp.gr.81 .50

Glycerine .58

Petroleum .51

Turpentine .41

Water 1.00

and so on & so forth.

please now if you know the specific heat of wax THEN PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!

I can also give you specific heat of Gases/Vapors/Food Stuffs running in hundreds & hundreds. I just do not have "wax".

Not to be difficult BUT there are SIX general types of wax in two distinct classes.

Any particular one of interest?

• Natural Waxes –
• Animal Waxes – Beeswax, Lanolin, Tallow
• Vegetable Waxes – Carnauba, Candelilla, Soy
• Mineral Waxes
• Fossil or Earth – Ceresin, Montan
• Petroleum – Paraffin, Microcrystalline
• Synthetic (man-made)
• Ethylenic polymers e.g. polyethylene & polyol ether-esters
• Chlorinated naphthalenes
• Hydrocarbon type, e.g. Fischer-Tropsch

As a WAG I would suggest .50 +/- untill you can find or get a better value.

The specific heat of the wax you are melting is a means to an end. Your OP had TMI not pertinent to the question.

Wax_Overview

IF you really have to have the Specific Heat for a specific wax contact the folks at the web site above with the specific wax of interest.

Thanks Stan.

u are a life-saver.

Being delayed I took .53 as a long shot `guesstimate'.

Anyway you taught me that there are SIX general types. This was new to me.

Thanks heap buddy.

This thread has been very useful to me, but would anyone happen to know approximately what the latent heat of fusion for waxes such as beeswax or lanolin would be?