Ethyl chloride is sold as a liquid (see photo) under pressurefor use as a local skin anesthetic. Ethyl chloride boils at 12 °Cat atmospheric pressure. When the liquid is sprayed ontothe skin, it boils off, cooling and numbing the skin as itvaporizes. (a) What changes of state are involved in this useof ethyl chloride?
Ethyl chloride is sold as a liquid (see photo) under pressurefor use as a local skin anesthetic. Ethyl chloride boils at 12 °Cat atmospheric pressure. When the liquid is sprayed ontothe skin, it boils off, cooling and numbing the skin as itvaporizes. (a) What changes of state are involved in this useof ethyl chloride?
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Ethyl chloride is sold as a liquid (see photo) under pressure
for use as a local skin anesthetic. Ethyl chloride boils at 12 °C
at atmospheric pressure. When the liquid is sprayed onto
the skin, it boils off, cooling and numbing the skin as it
vaporizes. (a) What changes of state are involved in this use
of ethyl chloride?
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