Which will require more heat, increasing the temperature of 1 mol of C8H18(l) by a certain amount or increasing the temperature of 1 mol of H2O(l) by the same amount?

Increasing the temperature of 1 mol of C8H18(l) requires more energy

Explanation:

To answer this question, we need to define molar heat capacity that is the amount of heat required to increase in 1K the temperature of 1 mole of substance.

That means the substance with higher molar heat requires more energy to increase its temperature

Molar heat of octane, C8H18 is 255.68J/Kmol

Molar heat of water is 75.38J/Kmol

That means increasing the temperature of 1 mol of C8H18(l) requires more energy

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.

while cooking a piece of 1/2 pound beef steak, a cast iron pan (2.4kg in weight) was heated 260 celsius.