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13.6 Exercise 7

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Pressure cookers increase cooking speed by raising the boiling temperature of water above its value at atmospheric pressure. (a) What pressure is necessary to raise the boiling point to 120.0ºC\text{120} . 0 º \text{C}? (b) What gauge pressure does this correspond to?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 13.6 Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling, exercise 7

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