Question

A chemist wants to increase the solubility of a solid in water. Which of the

Answer 1

Answer:

- Increase pressure .

Explanation:

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In this case, during the dissolution process, the solute's molecules rearrange in order to get together with the solvent's molecules, in this case water.

Now, since we are talking about a solid whose particles are intimately held together, the only way to separate them is by increasing the temperature because the molecules start moving so they can join water's molecules, decreasing particle size since they will be more likely to separate to each other and increasing stirring since the applied energy will break the solid's intramolecular forces.

In such a way, since pressure significantly affects gases and slightly affects liquid, it is not able to modify a solid, just extreme pressures such as it needed to produce diamonds, is able to affect a solid. For that reason, increasing the pressure will not increase the solid's solubility.

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