Students conduct an experiment in which steel wool is burned in a closed test tube. The steel wool reacts with an amount of oxyg
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Answer:
The reaction will be spontaneous
Explanation:
To determine if the reaction will be spontaneous or not at this temperature, we need to calculate the Gibbs's energy using the following formula:
<u>If the Gibbs's energy is negative, the reaction will be spontaneous, but if it's positive it will not.</u>
Calculating the :
Now, other factor we need to determine is the sign of the S variation. When talking about gases, the more moles you have in your system the more enthropic it is.
In this reaction you go from 7 moles to 8 moles of gas, so you can say that you are going from one enthropy to another higher than the first one. This results in:
If the variation of S is positive, the Gibbs's energy will be negative always and the reaction will be spontaneous.