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College Physics | 1st Edition | ISBN: 9781938168000 | Authors: Paul Peter Urone, Roger Hinrichs
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(a) It is difficult to extinguish a fire on a crude oil

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(a) It is difficult to extinguish a fire on a crude oil tanker, because each liter of crude oil releases 2.80 × 107 J of energy when burned. To illustrate this difficulty, calculate the number of liters of water that must be expended to absorb the energy released by burning 1.00 L of crude oil, if the water has its temperature raised from 20.0ºC to 100ºC , it boils, and the resulting steam is raised to 300ºC . (b) Discuss additional complications caused by the fact that crude oil has a smaller density than water.

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Problem 20PE

(a) It is difficult to extinguish a fire on a crude oil tanker, because each liter of crude oil releases 2.80 × 107 J of energy when burned. To illustrate this difficulty, calculate the number of liters of water that must be expended to absorb the energy released by burning 1.00 L of crude oil, if the water has its temperature raised from 20.0ºC to 100ºC , it boils, and the resulting steam is raised to 300ºC . (b) Discuss additional complications caused by the fact that crude oil has a smaller density than water.

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