A container has a flat bottom made of aluminum that is 1.18 -cm thick. The walls...

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A container has a flat bottom made of aluminum that is 1.18 -cmthick. The walls are insulated with thick styrofoam. The exteriorbottom of the container is in continual contact with boiling water.Inside the container, ethanol (ethyl alcohol) is boiling. How longuntil the alcohol completely boils away if initially it has a depthof 5 cm? Assume that the thermal conductivity of aluminum is 220W/m· ◦C, the latent heat of vaporization of ethanol is 854 kJ/kg,the boiling point of ethanol is 78.2 ◦C, and the density of ethanolis 785 kg/m3 . [50, 80 s]

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