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Explain Why The Can Collapse Using The Combined Gas Law

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Explain why the can collapsed using the Combined Gas Law where T1 is the initial temperature of the air inside the can before the can was inverted and T2 is the temperature of the air inside the can after it was plunged into the ice water. When the can is placed onto the fire, T1 begins to rise. The water inside the can tbegins to vaporize and turn into steam . The steam then begins to take the place of the air in the can, but T1 still on the rise. The water doesn’t have time to fill the can. The sides of the can cooled really fast once placed in the ice water, and the steam condenses on the sides of the can. the internal pressure drops so the internal pressure inverts it. By the time T2 is reached, the the internal air temperature has risen
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