Skip to main content
Ch.11 - Liquids and Intermolecular Forces

Chapter 11, Problem 40c

Name the phase transition in each of the following situations and indicate whether it is exothermic or endothermic: (c) Rubbing alcohol in an open container slowly disappears.

Verified Solution
Video duration:
53s
This video solution was recommended by our tutors as helpful for the problem above.
356
views
Was this helpful?

Video transcript

Hello everyone today. We are being asked to identify if the following processes are endo thermic or eggs are thermic and then to determine a phase transition. So the scenario is cooking oil solidifies during winter time solidifying. That should be a key word to let us know that we are going from a liquid to a solid and therefore that is known as freezing. So that is our phase transitions freezing. And then we know that since liquid is turning to solid, the bonds are what they're going to be forming. So we're going to say forming bonds in this situation, which means that eggs, a thermic an exit thermic reaction is occurring or energy known as heat. Energy is being released in the formation of these bonds. I hope this helped and until next time.
Related Practice
Textbook Question

Based on their composition and structure, list CH2Cl2, CH3CH2CH3, and CH3CH2OH in order of (c) increasing surface tension

1823
views
Textbook Question

Liquids can interact with flat surfaces just as they can with capillary tubes; the cohesive forces within the liquid can be stronger or weaker than the adhesive forces between liquid and surface:

(b) Which of these diagrams, i or ii, rep- resents what happens when water is on a nonpolar surface?

369
views
Textbook Question
The boiling points, surface tensions, and viscosities of water and several alcohols are as shown below: (b) How do you explain the fact that propanol and ethylene glycol have similar molecular weights (60 versus 62 amu), yet the viscosity of ethylene glycol is more than 10 times larger than propa- nol?
781
views
Textbook Question

Name the phase transition in each of the following situations and indicate whether it is exothermic or endothermic: (d) Molten lava from a volcano turns into solid rock.

354
views
Textbook Question

Ethyl chloride (C2H5Cl) boils at 12 °C. When liquid C2H5Cl under pressure is sprayed on a room-temperature (25 °C) surface in air, the surface is cooled considerably. (a) What does this observation tell us about the specific heat of C2H5Cl(g) as compared with that of C2H5Cl(l)?

835
views
Textbook Question

Ethyl chloride (C2H5Cl) boils at 12 °C. When liquid C2H5Cl under pressure is sprayed on a room-temperature (25 °C) surface in air, the surface is cooled considerably. (b) Assume that the heat lost by the surface is gained by ethyl chloride. What enthalpies must you consider if you were to calculate the final temperature of the surface?

740
views