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An inventor claims to have invented an adiabaticsteady-flow device with a single inlet–outlet that produces230 kW when expanding 1 kg/s of air from 1200 kPa and300C to 100 kPa. Is this claim valid?

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Chapter2: The Kinetic Theory Of Gases

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