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A metal brick found in an excavation was sent to a testing lab for non-destructive identif...

A metal brick found in an excavation was sent to a testing lab for non-destructive identification. The lab weighed the sample brick and found its mass to be 3.0 kg. The brick was heated to a temperature of 3.0-102 °C and dropped into an insulated copper calorimeter of mass 1.5 kg containing 2.0 kg of water at 2.0 . 101 °C. The final temperature at equilibrium was noted to be 31.7 °C. By calculating the specific heat of the sample from this data, can you identify the brick’s material?

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