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Use the References to access important values if needed for this question. In the laboratory a "coffee cup" calorimeter, or constant pressure calorimeter, is frequently used to determine the specific heat of a solid, or to measure the energy of a solution phase reaction. A chunk of aluminum weighing 18.06 grams and originally at 98.31 °C is dropped into an insulated cup containing 76.85 grams of water at 20.96 °C. The heat capacity of the calorimeter (sometimes referred to as the calorimeter constant) was determined in a separate experiment to be 1.89 J/°C. Using the accepted value for the specific heat of aluminum (See the References tool), calculate the final temperature of the water. Assume that no heat is lost to the surroundings.

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