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I would have thought no, but my textbook appears to imply that the liquid being boiled in a confined space doesn't at its normal boiling temperature but does boil at a higher temperature. The reason I don't think a confined liquid can boil is because the external pressure in a confined liquid...

I don't understand Avogadro's number when dealing with relative molecular weights. I understand that the relative atomic weights of the various elements are each equal to avogadro's number. But take for example water, H2O. If Avogadro's number is equal to the relative atomic weight of...