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when ice melts at 1°...will the enthalpy increase or decrease..,..answer given is enthalpy increases

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Lokesh Verma ·

hmm.. cant think of anything right now...

I guess i will have to think more! but i have a few issues with the premise of the question now!!

first look i felt it was a great question...

I guess it still is.. but i will look more into it ...

or may be this is one of those misadventures many of these coaching institutes make a lot of times !!

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skygirl ·

arey enthalpy increase kar raha hai .... toh isme kya load hai????
....i thot the ans given is enthalpy decreases (as u posted in chem forum) ..... dats y i was giving diff reasons...

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apoorva ·

i had given the same answer as integrations......@ nishant...i agree......

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°ღ•๓яυΠ·

wen ice is meltin we c vapours given out by it
i simply means it absorbs heat as it absorbs heat del H>0 .......wich means enthalphy increases
corrct me if m wrng

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~AjInKyA~ ·

YES MANISH IS RIGHT
IT increases . which was wat i was sayin>>>>>

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Manish Shankar ·

actually ΔU is zero for ideal gas and isothermal process (when both is true)

here ΔU is not zero

ΔH=mL

also ΔH=ΔU+PΔV≈ΔU (as change in volume is negligible)

so here enthalpy increases

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Abhishek Priyam ·

Sky's other reason in chemistry forum for this question.....

(our sir explained.....)

ΔH = ΔU + PΔV

ΔU=0 since no temp change as ΔU= nCvΔT

bt, del V decresaes in water till 4 degree cel.

so finally,,,, delH decreases.......

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Lokesh Verma ·

yeah even i was superconfused those days.. (still am) as u can see from my responses..

i liked the physics wala part of thermody.. but chem i was not good at...

basicaly JEE level thermod is very easy and interesting... most of the time..

dont worry about this question.. u have already seen how few ppl know about it among all that u have asked .. right :)

So u need to be able to solve potential JEE questons :)
a few questions here and there dont make u bad at any subject.. there are so many unsolvable questions that i can put just to overwhelm.. or anyone else could.. but The point of studying is not that :)

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apoorva ·

im confused with the thermodynamics in physics and chemistry.....both are opposite,,,,this is a physics question/....

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skygirl ·

ΔH = ΔU + PΔV

with inc in temperature ΔU increases...
but in water, ΔV decreases till 4°C....

so may be, decrease of ΔV > increase of int energy...
so, overall effect is decrease in enthalpy...

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apoorva ·

the question was...
when ice melts at 1°C...
a)enthalpy increases b)enthalpy decreases

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Lokesh Verma ·

what does this mean??

I mean ice melts at 0 degree...

melting at one degree could mean that we have put ice under conditions such that it has different pressure...

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apoorva ·

when the ice melts at 1 degree..

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Lokesh Verma ·

hmm..

Doubt:
is it ice at 1 degree
or
is it ice at 0 degree and outside temp at 1 degree?

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apoorva ·

why are u saying thatΔG is zero....why can't it be less than zero???

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Lokesh Verma ·

i see there is a flaw in sky's solution..

that is bcos ΔU is not 0

I have a solution..

ΔH=TΔS

Now randomness increases.. cos we are going from solid to liquid state.

So ΔS increases.

So ΔH increases...

I guess this is a good question.. we should discuss more on this one...

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apoorva ·

but for ice to melt....it should take in heat,,....its an endothermic reaction...so will not enthalpy increase???

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~AjInKyA~ ·

enthalpy is nothin but stream of impropernes
so increase in it is
wat v can call is tendency oppppppsing stability
so wen heated ice
it xpandzzz so molecules move away awayyyyyyyyyy fm
eachother due 2 thermal zpannsioin
so it ie enthalpy shod increaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase

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