Questions tagged [evaporation]
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How is lowering in vapour pressure a colligative property?
Imagine we have two containers: A and B. Both contain equal amounts of water and we add (say 50) molecules of sucrose and 50 molecules of glucose in containers A and B respectively.
Now, the typical ...
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Can evaporation of EtOH be slowed by adding dissolved solids to it? Does doubling the dissolved solid slow the evaporation in a predictable way?
I use EtOH to dissolve shellac flakes for finishing procedure. Does adding dissolved shellac slow the evaporation assuming all else is equal? What if you double the amount of dissolved shellac. ...
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Bubbling air through hydrochloric acid to generate HCl gas
I am trying to build a system to generate dry HCl gas. I was wondering if you bubble air through diluted HCl will it produce a gas with mostly water vapor or HCL vapor, can we vary the proportions of ...
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THF-H2O mixture at 80°C? isn't THF supposed to evaporate completely?
I was running a synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles starting from a aqueous solution of TiCl4 2THF 0.125M at 80°C. Through a different experiment it was detemined that the maximum reaction yield was 96% ...
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Can a heated gas leave a container through downwards direction?
If I have a flask full of heated gas, with an opening at the BOTTOM of the flask and connected pipe facing downwards, can the heated gas can leave the flask through that opening?
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If I spilled mercury in a carpeted room 28 years ago will it have evaporated by now? [closed]
I made a really stupid mistake as a kid 28 years ago and spilled about one teaspoon of mercury onto a carpeted floor of a room about 12x12 feet. I’m assuming it was organic mercury only because it was ...
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Residue left after evaporation of a salt solution
When a salt solution is evaporated (bunsen burner, evaporating dish/beaker), for example CuSO4 aq, there will be residue left over, as with all salt solutions.
However, the common form of copper (II) ...
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How might humidity inhibit the drying or hardening chemical oxidation process of linseed-based oil paint?
I understand that linseed-based oil paint essentially dries or hardens by the chemical process of oxidation and not by evaporation. If it is possible that humidity somehow inhibits the chemical drying ...
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What equation can be used to determine the mass of water evaporation over time, when cooking?
When baking, cooking or writing recipes, it would be useful to have a ballpark estimate of evaporation rates. This question asks about water, although the answer would ideally include an ...
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Powder left everywhere after solution was left to evaporate. What could it be?
I dissolved a coin made of silver and copper and probably other metals in nitric acid. I neutralized the solution with some sodium hydroxide and then added salt(NaCl) to make Silver Chloride. A white ...
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Advice on Evaporation / Leakage of Marquis and Ehrlich's reagents
I had ordered both Marquis and Ehrlich's reagents from a manufacturer and they came in eye dropper like bottles inside of prescription pill like bottles. The perscription pill bottles also had cotton ...
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Explaining Vapour Pressure and Evaporation by Chemical Potential
According to the coexistence curves, both gas and liquid phases can only exist when the chemical potential of both phases are equal.
Does this mean above and below the coexistence curve of liquid and ...
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What is the relationship between solutions and changes to states of matter?
For example, when liquid water evaporates, my instinct is to say that of course it's become gas, but I'm a bit unsure because, if I understand correctly, evaporation occurs because air dissolves the ...
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Understanding how evaporation works [closed]
I am struggling to grasp the concept of partial pressure and vapor pressure.
Consider a sealed container filled with water and a bit of air that is sufficiently dry placed in a room of temperature 25 ...
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If everything tends to entropy, why does water spontaneously evaporate? [closed]
Knowing that the second law of thermodynamics states that everything tends to entropy, why does water and other volatile substances spontaneously evaporate, getting energy to do so from the surface ...
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