Answer is: glycerol because it is more viscous and has a larger molar mass.
Viscosity depends on intermolecular interactions.
The predominant intermolecular force in water and glycerol is hydrogen bonding.
Hydrogen bond is an electrostatic attraction between two polar groups in which one group has hydrogen atom (H) and another group has highly electronegative atom such as nitrogen (like in this molecule), oxygen (O) or fluorine (F).
I’m pretty sure the answer is D!
Answer:
a) and d) are false.
Explanation:
a) The second law of thermodynamics states that t<u>he entropy of the universe increases in a spon
taneous process and remains unchanged in an equilibrium process.</u>
For a spontaneous process:
ΔSuniv = ΔSsys + ΔSsurr > 0
For a spontaneous process, the second law says that ΔSuniv must be greater than zero, but it does not place a restriction on either ΔSsys or ΔSsurr. Thus, it is possible for either ΔSsys or ΔSsurr to be negative, as long as the sum of these two quantities is greater than zero.
d) <u>A reaction that does occur under the given set of conditions is called a</u> spontaneous reaction. We observe spontaneous physical and chemical processes every day, including many of the following examples:
• A waterfall runs downhill, but never up, spontaneously.
• A lump of sugar spontaneously dissolves in a cup of coffee, but dissolved sugar does not spontaneously reappear in its original form.
• Heat flows from a hotter object to a colder one, but the reverse never happens spontaneously.
The catalyst would increase the rate of the forward reaction...
And increase the rate of the backward to the same extent thus not affecting equilibrium.
