Question 13

(Multiple Choice)

A kilocalorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1,000 grams of water 1 degree Celsius (the "calories given for energy in foods are actually kilocalories). If you applied 1 kilocalorie of heat energy to 1,000 grams of vegetable oil, how much do you think its temperature would increase?


A) less than one degree Celsius
B) more than one degree Celsius
C) one degree Celsius
D) to the boiling point
E) not at all

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