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Assertion (A): A reference state must be chosen before enthalpies can be tabulated.
Reason (R): Only enthalpy differences are physically meaningful.

  • A.A is true but R is false
  • B.A is false but R is true
  • C.Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
  • D.Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A

Answer: C

Both are true and the reason gives the necessity: steam tables take liquid water at the triple point as zero, and any other choice shifts every value by a constant that cancels in every difference. The choice is a convention rather than a physical fact.

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