Table of specific heat capacities
The table of specific heat capacities gives the volumetric heat capacity as well as the specific heat capacity of some substances and engineering materials, and (when applicable) the molar heat capacity. Generally the most constant parameter is notably the volumetric heat capacity (at least for solids) which is around the value of 3 megajoule per cubic meter per kelvin: Note that the especially high molar values, as for paraffin, gasoline, water and ammonia, result from calculating specific heats in terms of moles of "molecules". If specific heat is expressed per mole of "atoms" for these  substances, none of the constant-volume values exceed, to any large extent, the theoretical Dulong–Petit limit of 25 J⋅mol⋅K = 3 "R" per mole of atoms (see the last column of this table). Paraffin for example has very large molecules and thus a high heat capacity per mole, but as a substance it does not have remarkable heat capacity in terms of volume, mass, or atom-mol (which is just 1.41 "R" per mole of atoms, or less than half of most solids, in terms of heat capacity per atom). Dulong–Petit limit also explains why dense substance which  have very heavy atoms, such like lead, rank very low in mass heat capacity. In the last column, major departures of solids at standard temperatures from the Dulong–Petit law value of 3 "R", are usually due to low atomic weight plus high bond strength (as in diamond) causing some vibration modes to have too much energy to be available to store thermal energy at the measured temperature. For gases, departure from 3 "R" per mole of atoms is generally due to two factors: (1) failure of the higher quantum-energy-spaced vibration modes in gas molecules to be excited  at room temperature, and (2) loss of potential energy degree of freedom for small gas molecules, simply because most of their atoms are not bonded maximally in space to other atoms, as happens in many solids.