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How much time is needed for a surgical cauterizer to raise the temperature of 1.00 g of tissue from 37.0ºC\text{37} . 0º \text{C} to 100ºC\text{100}º \text{C} and then boil away 0.500 g of water, if it puts out 2.00 mA at 15.0 kV? Ignore heat transfer to the surroundings.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 20.4 Electric Power and Energy, exercise 27

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