Indigenous people sometimes cook in watertight baskets by placing
hot rocks into water to bring it to a boil. What mass of 500ºC rock must
be placed in 4.00 kg of 15.0ºC water to bring its temperature to 100ºC
, if 0.0250 kg of water escapes as vapor from the initial sizzle? You may
neglect the effects of the surroundings and take the average specific heat
of the rocks to be that of granite.
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