During your experimental procedure, there was residual water left with the copper metal when it was heated. This water did not evaporate while the metal was heated. If the heated metal residual water was then added to the cool water during your experimentation, this would cause the calculated specific heat of copper to be greater, lesser or equal to the actual specific heat of copper. Required:
Provide a detailed explanation of how this would or would not affect the calculated specific heat of copper.

the correct option is c.

isotopes refers to different forms of the same element with the same atomic number but different mass number as a result of difference in their neutron numbers. isotopes have different relative atomic mass but share the same chemical properties.

percent abundance for cu-63 can be shown as:

63 x + 65 (1-x) = 62.9296

65 - 62.9296 = 2 x

x = 1.035

thus, percent abundance for cu-63 is 1.035

percent abundance for cu-65 can be shown as:

63 x + 65 (1-x) = 64.9278

65 - 64.9278 = 2 x

x = 0.0361

thus, percent abundance for cu-63 is 0.0361

the mass spectrum of cu-63 showing the intense peak as, this isotope is found in nature more abundantly around 92.38 % in comparison to cu-65 which is found 62.58 % naturally