A5 mole sample of liquid acetone is converted to a gas at 75.0°c. if 628 j are required to raise the temperature of the liquid to the boiling point, 15.600 kj are required to evaporate the liquid, and 712 j are required to raise the final temperature to 75.0°c, what is the total energy required for the conversion?

The total energy required for this conversion is equivalent to the sum of the energies that are used. There are three steps:

1) Heating of liquid acetone
This used 628 J

2) Evaporation of acetone
This used 15.6 kJ or 15,600 J

3) Heating of acetone vapors
This used 712 J

Adding these quantities,

Total energy = 628 + 15,600 + 712

The total energy required was 16940 Joules of 16.94 kJ

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