A researcher studying the nutritional value of a new candy places a 4.10 g sample of the candy inside a bomb calorimeter and combusts it in excess oxygen. The observed temperature increase is 2.50 °C. If the heat capacity of the calorimeter is 33.80 kJ-K-', how many nutritional Calories are there per gram of the candy?

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A researcher studying the nutritional value of a new candy places a 4.10 g sample of the candy inside a bomb calorimeter
and combusts it in excess oxygen. The observed temperature increase is 2.50 °C. If the heat capacity of the calorimeter is
33.80 kJ-K-', how many nutritional Calories are there per gram of the candy?
Transcribed Image Text:A researcher studying the nutritional value of a new candy places a 4.10 g sample of the candy inside a bomb calorimeter and combusts it in excess oxygen. The observed temperature increase is 2.50 °C. If the heat capacity of the calorimeter is 33.80 kJ-K-', how many nutritional Calories are there per gram of the candy?
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