Calculate the quantity of energy, in joules, required to raise the temperature of 486 g tin...

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Calculate the quantity of energy, in joules, required to raisethe temperature of 486 g tin from room temperature, 25.0 °C, to itsmelting point, 231.9 °C, and then melt the tin at that temperature.(The specific heat capacity of tin is 0.227 , and the enthalpy offusion of this metal is 59.2 J/g.)

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Since you are only going to the melting point you need to know the Heat of Fusion not Vaporization This is the value you have given 592Jg First change all the temps to their K equivalents by adding 273    See Answer
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