A 60 g piece of aluminum at 20°C is cooled to -196°C by placing it in a large container of liquid nitrogen at that temperature. How much nitrogen is vaporized? (Assume that the specific heat of aluminum is constant and is equal to 0.90 kJ/kg·K and that the vaporized nitrogen's temperature does not change.)

Explanation:

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In this case, for an average temperature of -176 °C, the vaporization enthalpy of liquid nitrogen is 199.2 J/g, thus, we first compute the heat lost by the aluminium by considering it cooled mass, specific heat and temperature change:

Next, heat lost by the aluminium is gained by the nitrogen:

Therefore, the vaporized nitrogen is:

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