Question

A moonshiner produces pure ethanol (ethyl alcohol) late at night and stores it in a stainless steel tank in the form of a cylinder 0.260 m in diameter with a tight-fitting piston at the top. The total volume of the tank is 255 L . In an attempt to squeeze a little more into the tank, the moonshiner piles lead breaks of total mass 1450 kg on top of the piston.

Part A What additional volume of ethanol can the moonshiner squeeze into the tank? (Assume that the wall of the tank is perfectly rigid.)

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