13. The cooking of an egg involves the denaturation of a protein called albumen. The time required to achieve a particular degree of denaturation is inversely proportional to the rate constant for the process. This reaction has a high activation energy, E? = 418 kJ mol?Ā¹. Calculate how long it would take to cook a traditional three-minute egg on top of Mt. Denali in Alaska on a day when the atmospheric pressure there is 355 torr.
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