A student dissolves 10,3 g of sodium chloride(NaCl) in 250 g of water in a well-insulated open cup. She then observes the temperature of the water fall from 23.0 °C to 22.2 °C over the course of 3 minutes. Use this data, and any information you need from the ALEKS Data resource, NaCl (s) rightarrow Na+ (aq) + Cl- (aq)
You can make any reasonable assumptions about the physical properties of the solution. Note for advanced students: it's possible the student did not do the experiment carefully, and the values you calculate may not be the same as the known and published values for this reaction.
1. Is this reaction exothermic, endothermic, or neither?
2. If you said the reaction was exothermic or endothermic, calculate the amount of heat that was released or absorbed by the reaction in this case.
3. Calculate the reaction enthalpy delta Hrxn per mole of NaCl.