Sorry I didn't see this before...
Okay, I see two major problems with this student's experiment:
1) Nitric acid Won't Dissolve in Methane
Nitric acid is what's called a mineral acid. That means it is inorganic (it doesn't contain carbon) and dissolves in water.
Methane is an organic molecule (it contains carbon). It literally cannot dissolve nitric acid. Here's why:
For nitric acid (HNO3) to dissolve into a solvent, that solvent must be polar. It must have a charge to pull the positively charged Hydrogen off of the Oxygen. Methane has no charge, since its carbon and hydrogens have nearly perfect covalent bonds. Thus it cannot dissolve nitric acid. There will be no solution. That leads to the next problem:
2) He's Not actually Measuring a Solution
He's picking up the pH of the pure nitric acid. Since it didn't dissolve, what's left isn't a solution—it's like mixing oil and water. He has groups of methane and groups of nitric acid. Since methane is perfectly neutral (neither acid nor base), the electronic instrument is only picking up the extremely acidic nitric acid. There's no point to what he's doing.
Does that help?
B. It reflects light rays outward.
A convex mirror looks like this ⊂. So when light rays hit the outward curves, it bends the light rays outwards, and backwards, and it would appear to be coming from its center called the focus.
Answer:
momentum formula = Mass × Velocity
Answer:
The low side pressure of an A/C system losing vacuum and the pressure rising above zero indicates that there is too much refrigerant in the system.
Explanation:
Considering an A/C system, the condenser fan might be malfunctioning if the low side pressure of the air conditioner is excessive. On the other hand, it's also conceivable that the system has been overcharged with refrigerant.
Stated the scenario that the refrigerant of the system was being recovered, it is an indication that the system is merely overcharged. Even with the engine off, you will notice high pressures.
Either too much oil is present, or there is too much refrigerant in the air conditioning system. In either case, until you let some of that pressure out—ideally, a mechanic should do this—the issue won't go away on its own.
To know more about the pressure scenarios related to AC systems, refer to:
brainly.com/question/17072827
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