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22 January, 02:20

The temperature of a person with an extremely high fever can be lowered with a sponge bath of isopropyl alcohol (C3H7OH). The heat of vaporization of this alcohol is 11.1 kcal/mol.

How many kilograms of water would this energy loss cool in lowering the temperature from 41.2°C to 36.0°C?

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