13. What are the 5 characteristics that are needed to make something a mineral:

The small bags of silica gel you often see in a new shoe box are placed there to control humidity. despite its name, silica gel is a solid. it is a chemically inert, highly porous, amorphous form of sio2. because water vapor readily adsorbs onto the surface of silica gel, it acts as a desiccant. despite not knowing mechanistic details of the adsorption of water onto silica gel, from the information provided you should be able to make an educated guess about the thermodynamic characteristics of the process. predict the signs for δg, δh, and δs for the adsorption of water.

Use the half-reactions of the reaction au(oh)3 + hi -> au +i2 +h2o to answer the questions

The following questions a24 - a26 relate to 100 ml of 0.0150 m solution of benzoic acid (c6h3cooh). ka(c6h3cooh) = 6.4 x 10^-5. what is the ph of the solution after the addition of 1 x 10^-3 moles of naoh? you may assume no volume change to the solution upon addition of the naoh.