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GET /v1/materials

Specific heat reference

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api.oanor.com/specificheat-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/specificheat-api/v1/materials" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/specificheat-api/v1/materials", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/specificheat-api/v1/materials");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/specificheat-api/v1/materials",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Typical specific heats at around room temperature, J/(kg·K). Pass material=<name> or an explicit specific_heat.",
        "specific_heat_J_per_kgK": {
            "air": 1005,
            "ice": 2090,
            "oil": 2000,
            "gold": 129,
            "iron": 449,
            "lead": 128,
            "sand": 830,
            "soil": 800,
            "wood": 1700,
            "zinc": 387,
            "brass": 380,
            "glass": 840,
            "steam": 2010,
            "steel": 466,
            "water": 4186,
            "copper": 385,
            "silver": 235,
            "ethanol": 2440,
            "granite": 790,
            "mercury": 140,
            "aluminum": 900,
            "concrete": 880,
            "aluminium": 900
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-04T10:18:57.703Z",
        "request_id": "120da7b9-918c-4fd4-90a0-7ee30c9c0659"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Specific heat reference",
    "success": true
}