Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity
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ISBN: 9781337399074
Author: John C. Kotz, Paul M. Treichel, John Townsend, David Treichel
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Confirm that a person swimming at the world record rate for the 50-m freestyle would travel 2.4 mm in one thousandth of a second.
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