Calorimetry: Crash Course Chemistry #19
Today's episode dives into the HOW of enthalpy. How we calculate it, and how we determine it experimentally...even if our determinations here at Crash Course ...
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Hydrochloric Acid: every chemist's frenemy, as terribly dangerous as it is terribly useful. It'll burn your skin, your eyes, even your mucus membranes if you breathe in its fumes for too long. But HCL as an acid gives up its hydrogen pretty easily, which makes it good for making things like fertilizers and dyes and even table salt. Then, there's sodium hydroxide, another substance that I wouldn't wish to be on my worst foe, although I'm glad we have it. You may know it as lye, an extremely caustic substance that's used for everything from clearing clogged pipes to purifying drinking water. It's a base. It readily accept the protons that acids release. So what do you think will happen when I mix solutions of these two things together? Will they just cancel each...
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Hydrochloric Acid: every chemist's frenemy, as terribly dangerous as it is terribly useful. It'll burn your skin, your eyes, even your mucus membranes if you breathe in its fumes for too long. But HCL as an acid gives up its hydrogen pretty easily, which makes it good for making things like fertilizers and dyes and even table salt. Then, there's sodium hydroxide, another substance that I wouldn't wish to be on my worst foe, although I'm glad we have it. You may know it as lye, an extremely caustic substance that's used for everything from clearing clogged pipes to purifying drinking water. It's a base. It readily accept the protons that acids release. So what do you think will happen when I mix solutions of these two things together? Will they just cancel each...
