Lab Safety Rule #3 says to always add acids or bases to the solvent and NEVER the other way around true or false?

Chemistry

1 answer:

VladimirAG [237]3 years ago

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Answer:

true

Explanation:

<em>The standard laboratory rule is to always add acids or bases to solvent and not the other way round.</em>

The dissolution of concentrated acids/bases in solvents (water) generates heat energy. Thus, if the solvent is added to them, a layer of hot weak acid or base will be formed and this will boil and spray around, causing an explosion.

On the other hand, if acid/base is added to solvents, they flow into the solvents and get diluted immediately without any boiling taking place. Hence, it is safe to add acid/base to solvents and not the other way round.

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