Water gaseous

When water freezes the crystalline form adopted depends upon the detailed conditions employed. At least nine structurally distinct forms of ice are known and the phase relations between them are summarized in Fig. 14.9. Thus, when liquid or gaseous water crystallizes at atmospheric pressure normal hexagonal ice If, forms, but at very low temperatures (—120° to — 140°) the vapour condenses to the cubic form, ice Ic. The relation between these structures is the same as that between the tridymite and cristobalite forms of SiOa (p. 342), though in both forms of ice the protons are disordered. 

When water vapor condenses to liquid water, the molecules release the energy it took to separate them. A mole of gaseous water, therefore, will release 10 kilocalories of heat when condensed to liquid water at the same temperature. The amount of heat released is numerically equal to the molar heat of vaporization. 

Show that the ratio of the molar heat of formation of gaseous water from the elements (a chemical reaction) to the molar heat of the fusion of water (a phase change) is of the order of 50. 

How many grams of hydrogen would have to be burned (to gaseous water) to liberate the same amount of heat as liberated by fusion of one mole of iH nuclei Express the answer in tons (1 ton = 9.07 X 10s g). 

For a pure substance, having three phases in equilibrium results in a triple point that is invariant. When pure solid, liquid, and gaseous water are in equilibrium, the temperature is fixed at a value of 273.16 K, and the pressure of the gas is fixed at the vapor pressure value (0.6105 kPa). 

Write and balance the chemical equation for the combustion of hexane, GfcH14, to gaseous carbon dioxide gas and gaseous water. 

Bond energies can be used to estimate the energy change that occurs in a chemical reaction. The reaction of molecular hydrogen with molecular oxygen to form gaseous water provides a simple example ... 

Calcium sulfate, the substance used to absorb water in desiccators, provides an example of this temperature sensitivity. Anhydrous calcium sulfate absorbs water vapor from the atmosphere to give the hydrated salt. The reaction has a negative AS° because water molecules become more constrained when gaseous water molecules move into the solid state. The reaction also has a negative AH ° because of the electrical forces of attraction... 

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Liquid water is difficult to find in the universe. Scientists have found frozen ice in places such as Mars and gaseous water vapor in atmospheres such as that on Venus. However, no one has been able to find liquid water anywhere other than on Earth. Water is the only natural substance that is found in all three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) at the temperatures normally found on Earth. By exploring a few of the properties of water, you will discover what makes water unique. 

The hydrosphere (the Greek prefix hydro means water) is the great mass of water that surrounds the crust of the earth. Water is one of a few substances that, at the temperatures normal on the surface of the earth (which range between about -50 and 50°C), exists in three different states liquid, gas, and solid. Liquid water makes up the oceans, seas, and lakes, flows in rivers, and underground streams. Solid water (ice) occurs in the polar masses, in glaciers, and at high altitudes, and gaseous water (moisture) is part of the atmosphere (O Toole 1995). Liquid and solid water cover over 70% of the surface of the earth. 

At 25 °C, water is ordinarily a liquid. However, even at 25 °C, water evaporates. In a closed container at 25 °C, water evaporates enough to get a 27 torr water vapor pressure in its container. The pressure of the gaseous water is called its vapor pressure at that temperature. At different tempera-... 

The same number of moles of gaseous water (at 400 K) is obtained. The total number of moles of gas is 0.0238 mol. The volume is given by... 

FIGURE 2.6 Root-mean-square range and mean path length oflow-energy electrons in gaseous water. From LaVerne and Mozumder (1983). 

Another procedure for calculating the W value has been developed by La Verne and Mozumder (1992) and applied to electron and proton irradiation of gaseous water. Considering a small section Ax of an electron track, the energy loss of the primary electron is S(E) Ax, where S(E) is the stopping power at electron energy E. The average number of primary ionizations produced over Ax is No. Ax where o. is the total ionization cross section and N is the number density of molecules. Thus, the W value for primary ionization is 0)p = S(E)/No.(E). If the differential ionization cross section for the production... 

Various experiments on the electron energy dependence of ionization cross sections in gaseous water are basically consistent with each other. Rudd s (1989) model computes these cross sections quite well. 

Integral W values oj ionization for incident electron energies E, as measured in Combecher s (1980) experiments on gaseous water, can be well fitted by the equation W(E) = W(°°)(l - I/E)-1, where W(°°) = 30.0 eV is the value in the high-energy limit. A similar equation is assumed for liquid water. In contrast, the entity-specific Wi value of ionization, defined for a certain energy deposition in a spur, shows a minimum at 20 eV in... 

Extrapolation, to liquid density, of thermalization time in gaseous water (also approximate) by Christophorou et al. (1975), based on drift velocity and transverse diffusion coefficient measurement, which gives tth 2.0 x 10-1+ s... 

The standard molar enthalpy of formation, A// , is the amount of heat absorbed when 1 mole of the substance is produced from its elements in their standard states. At 25°C, A// of liquid water is -285.8 kJ/mol and A// of water vapor is -241.8 kJ/mol. This means that more heat is released when liquid water is formed from its elements, then when gaseous water is formed from its elements. So, the formation reaction of liquid water is... 

In a similar way, the Systeme Internationale has defined other common physicochemical variables. The SI unit of temperature T is the kelvin. We define the kelvin as 1/273.16th part of the thermodynamic temperature difference between absolute zero (see Section 1.4) and the triple point of water, i.e. the temperature at which liquid water is at equilibrium with solid water (ice) and gaseous water (steam) provided that the pressure is 610 Pa. 

A bathroom mirror is usually colder than the temperature of the steam rising from a hot bath. Each molecule of steam (gaseous water) has an enormous energy, which comes ultimately from the boiler that heats the water. The particles of steam would remain as liquid if they had less energy. In practice, particles evaporate from the bath to form energetic molecules of steam. We see this energy as kinetic energy, so the particles move fast (see p. 30). The typical speeds at which gas particles move make it inevitable that steam molecules will collide with the mirror. 

Figure 2.3 The water molecule has a V shape. Experiments show that gaseous water has an O-H length of 0.957 18 A the H-O-H angle is 104.474°. Water is polar because the central oxygen is electronegative and the two hydrogen atoms are electropositive. The vertical arrow indicates the resultant dipole, with its head pointing toward the more negative end of the molecule...

When steam (gaseous water) is cooled below a certain temperature, the molecules have insufficient energy to maintain their high-speed motion and they slow down. At these slower speeds, they attract one another, thereby decreasing the molar volume. 

Sometimes we feel hot even when sweating, particularly in a humid environment like a beach by the sea on a hot day. Two processes occur in tandem on the skin evaporation (liquid water - gaseous water) and condensation (gaseous water liquid water). It is quite possible that the same water condenses on our face as evaporated earlier. In effect, then, a cycle of liquid gas -> liquid occurs. The two halves of this cycle operate in opposite senses, since both exo- and endo-thermic processes occur simultaneously. The net change in energy is, therefore, negligible, and we feel no cooler. 

Imagine we want to convert 1 mol of water starting at a room temperature of, say, 25 °C to steam. In fact we must consider two separate thermodynamic processes we first consider the heat needed to warm the water from 25 °C to its boiling temperature of 100 °C. The water remains liquid during this heating process. Next, we convert 1 mol of the liquid water at 100°C to gaseous water (i.e. we boil it), but without altering the temperature. 

The whistle functions because boiling is accompanied by a change in volume, so the steam has to leave the kettle. And the volume change is large the volume per mole of liquid water is 18 cm3 (about the size of a small plum) but the volume of a mole of gaseous water (steam) is huge. 

Ice is a solid form of water, and is its only stable form below 0 °C. The liquid form of H20 is the only stable form in the temperature range 0 < T < 100 °C. Above 100 °C, the normal, stable phase is gaseous water, steam . Water s normal melting temperature 7(meit) is 0°C (273.15 K). The word normal in this context implies at standard pressure p . The pressure has a value of 105 Pa. This temperature T tneiu is often called the melting point because water and ice coexist indefinitely at this temperature and pressure, but at no other temperature can they coexist. We say they reside together at equilibrium. 

The liquid water will have a lower entropy than the gaseous water, so the process will not be thermodynamically spontaneous. 

We indicate the state of matter that a particular substance is in by (s), (1), or (g). Thus, H20(g) would represent gaseous water (steam), H20(1) would represent liquid water, while H20(s) would represent solid water (ice). 

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