Answer:-
Water is highly ordered. In water each oxygen atom is connected to others around it through hydrogen bonding via bridging hydrogen atoms. When a salt like NaCl is dissolved, some of these Hydrogen bonds break.
When a salt like NaCl dissolves in water, the NaCl breaks in to ions Na+ and Cl-.
The water molecules now surround these ions.
The slightly negative oxygen end of water molecule gets near the Na+, while the slightly positive Hydrogen of water molecule gets near the Cl-.
So before salt sample dissolve, the water molecules were highly ordered due to hydrogen bonding. Now after salt dissolve there is a decrease in order and thus an increase in disorder of the water molecules.
Due to increase in disorder, entropy which is a measure of disorder increases. Since entropy increases, delta S for the process is positive.
Answer:
5. Selenium, because it does not have a stable, half-filled p subshell and adding an electron does not decrease its stability.
Explanation:
Electron affinity is the amount of energy released when an isolated gaseous atom accepts electron to form the corresponding anion.
Selenium:-
The electronic configuration of the element is:-
![[Ar]3d^{10}4s^24p^4](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5BAr%5D3d%5E%7B10%7D4s%5E24p%5E4)
Arsenic:-
The electronic configuration of the element is:-
![[Ar]3d^{10}4s^24p^3](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5BAr%5D3d%5E%7B10%7D4s%5E24p%5E3)
The 4p orbital in case of arsenic is half filled which makes the element having more stability as compared to selenium.
Thus, selenium has higher electron affinity because adding electron does not decrease the stability as in case of arsenic.
Answer:
In a chemical equilibrium, the forward and reverse reactions occur at equal rates, and the concentrations of products and reactants remain constant. A catalyst speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction, but has no effect upon the equilibrium position for that reaction.
Explanation:
Sodium has one valence electron.
Answer:- 0.158 moles
Solution:- Moles are calculated on dividing the grams by the molar mass.
25.0 grams of 
are given and we are asked to calculate the moles.
For this we need the molar mass so let's calculate it first.
Molar mass is the sum of atomic masses of all the atoms present in the molecule.
Molar mass = 
= 158.036 gram per mol
Now, we will divide the given grams by molar mass to get the moles and the set is shown as:
= 
So, there are 0.158 moles of .
