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A 26.0 g sample of acetylene,C2H2, is burned in a bomb calorimeter in which a change in temperature of 4.79 °C is observed. If the heat capacity of the calorimeter is 1.08 kJ/°C, what is the enthalpy of combustion () of acetylene?
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