A Boiled Egg Can Be Cooked at 100

question 38

Multiple Choice

A boiled egg can be cooked at 100.0°C in exactly 5 minutes. At an altitude of around 2000 m where the boiling point of water is 93.0°C, it takes exactly 7.5 minutes to cook the egg to the same amount. What is the activation energy for the reaction involved when an egg is boiled?

• A)0.5 kJ/mol
• B)4.5 kJ/mol
• C)7.9 kJ/mol
• D)66 kJ/mol
• E)>100 kJ/mol

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