Suppose you have a helium-filled weather balloon above the house. As a storm leaves, the atmospheric pressure rises. Assuming the air temperature is the same, the volume of the balloon will ________.

What will be an ideal response?


decrease
shrink
lessen

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A) Triton. B) Uranus. C) Neptune. D) Titania. E) Oberon.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Latent Heats: If you add 700 kJ of heat to 700 g of water originally at 70.0°C, how much water is left in the container? The latent heat of vaporization of water is 22.6 × 105 J/kg, and its specific heat capacity is 4186 J/kg ? K.

A. 429 g B. 258 g C. 340 g D. 600 g E. none

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