Answer: The beaker will not tip over when placed on the hot plate
Justification:
Since beakers have flat surface bottoms (usually and this is the condition to use them for this particular application) they can be placed safely on the hot plate without the risk that the they tip over.
Beakers are wide mouth cylindrical vessels used in laboratories to store, mix and heat liquids. Most are made of glass, in which case the glass is resistant to the flame and does not break when exposed to high temperatures or when is heated by direct contact on a hot plate.
So, their safe shape (flat bottom) that makes them stable, along with their ability to withstand high temperatures, make them suitable to heat solutions in laboratories.
Desalination is a process that takes away mineral components from saline water.
A melting point of over 700 C and a density of less than 2 g/cm3 can be observed for many group 2 elements. In this group, the density increases on moving down the group, whereas the melting point increases upto calcium and then starts decreasing.
Calcium, symbol Ca is the element with melting point around 840 C and density of 1.55 g/cm3 which is closest to the specified data range .
