Solution

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Specific heat capacity is heat capacity per unit mass. For a specified thermodynamic process without a phase transition,
The constraint matters: constant-pressure and constant-volume heat capacities need not coincide. Here the supplied iron value and water value are treated as constants.
At the stipulated barometer reading, iron left in boiling water reaches . Taking water's specific heat capacity as one in the given units, the iron has heat capacity . The adhering gramme of hot water adds another one. Thus the hot material has total heat capacity , compared with for the initially cool water.
The no-loss calorimetry energy balance is
so
The adhering water enters on the hot side, not as extra water initially at . The vessel's heat capacity is neglected, as none is supplied.

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