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Imagine you have two pots on the stove, and each is holding 10 cups of water. You add half a cup of table salt to the water in pot A and nothing to pot B. Will the water in pot A or pot B boil first? Explain your answer.

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Salt water would boil faster because salt water has less capacity to hold heat, so it reaches its boiling point faster than pure water.
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