A redox reaction is a reaction that involves both reduction and oxidation, it involves a reducing agent which looses electrons and undergoes oxidation and an oxidizing agent that gains electrons (reduction). I believe the following are true about redox reactions; Electrons move from one substance to another, One atom gains electrons and one looses electrons.
Answer:
The correct answer is entropy change of the surrounding plus the entropy change of the system must be positive.
Explanation:
The term entropy is a state function.Entropy can be defined as the disorder or randomness of the molecules in a system.
A spontaneous reaction is a type of reaction which deals with the release of free energy.The change of free energy in case of spontaneous reaction is always negative.
According to the second law of thermodynamics a spontaneous reaction will occur in a system if the total entropy of both system and surrounding increases during the reaction.
Answer:
a. A reaction in which the entropy of the system increases can be spontaneous only if it is endothermic.
Explanation:
The change in free energy (ΔG) that is, the <u>energy available to do work</u>, of a system for a constant-temperature process is:
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When ΔG < 0 the reaction is spontaneous in the forward direction.
- When ΔG > 0 the reaction is nonspontaneous. The reaction is
spontaneous in the opposite direction.
- When ΔG = 0 the system is at equilibrium.
If <u>both ΔH and ΔS are positive</u>, then ΔG will be negative only when the TΔS term is greater in magnitude than ΔH. This condition is met when T is large.
