water
... Water Water is therefore described as having a high latent heat of evaporation. Animals use this property of water by using excess body heat to evaporate water from their surfaces, resulting in them transferring a lot of energy into the environment but only losing a little water. ... Also because a large amount of energy must also be transferred from water to convert from liquid to solid (ice), it is quite difficult for water to freeze, which is an advantage both to organisms living in water, and to the bodies of living organisms. Latent heat of evaporation: - Water also has a high latent heat of fusion from solid to liquid. It requires 300 J per gram of ice to melt it to water.