Your boss got an email saying there were precious metals on Venus and he believed it. Now he wants to mine them, and he has given you the job of figuring out how to do it. What could you tell him about Venus that could change his mind, without getting yourself fired?

The amount of heat required to change liquid water to vapor at its boiling temperature is 2256 kj/kg. the amount of heat required to change liquid mercury to its vapor state at its boiling temperature is 295 kj/kg. one kg of each substance is currently at its boiling point. how will the amount of thermal energy required to change each substance from a liquid to a gas differ?