When a gas bubbles through water, small droplets of water are usually picked up along for the ride and are mixed in with the gas above the water inside the eudiometer tube. The water vapor takes up room, but isn't the important gas that you need to measure. The table of water vapor is needed to subtract the unwanted water vapor from the collection of gases.
A. Large atoms have valence electrons farther from the nucleus and lose them more readily, so they are more reactive than small atoms.
For example, the valence electron of a small atom like Li is tightly held. <em>Lithium gently fizzes</em> on the surface as it reacts with the water to produce hydrogen.
In contrast, the valence electron of a large atom like Cs is so loosely held that <em>cesium exlodes </em>on contact with water.
Answer is: pH of barium hydroxide is 13.935.
Chemical dissociation of barium hydroxide in water:
Ba(OH)₂(aq) → Ba²⁺(aq) + 2OH⁻(aq).
c(Ba(OH)₂) = 0.43 M.
V(Ba(OH)₂) = 100 mL ÷ 1000 mL/L = 0.1 L.
n(Ba(OH)₂) = 0.43 mol/L · 0.1 L.
n(Ba(OH)₂) = 0.043 mol.
From chemical reaction: n(Ba(OH)₂) : n(OH⁻) = 1 : 2.
n(OH⁻) = 0.086 mol.
c(OH⁻) = 0.86 mol/L.
pOH = -logc(OH⁻).
pOH = 0.065.
pH = 14 - 0.065 = 13.935.
