Constant-pressure gas versus electronic metal heat capacity

ID: constant-pressure-gas-versus-electronic-metal-heat-capacity

For equal atom counts, a classical ideal monatomic gas has . A monovalent three-dimensional free-electron metal has electronic contribution . Their ratio is the displayed expression. Replacing the gas's constant-pressure heat capacity with its changes the ratio by3/5. Neither ratio includes the metal's lattice heat capacity or gas nonideality.

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