<span>El Niño during the time of 1997 to 1998 caused drought in Southeast Asia and flooding in much of Latin America and in the Horn of Africa due to significant amounts of rainfall. The effects in both places were numerous deaths. In areas where it flooded, mudslides occurred and spoiled seed stores. In areas of drought, crops were extremely diminished and let to starvation.</span>
Heating a substance causes molecules to speed up and spread slightly further apart, occupying a larger volume that results in a decrease in density. Cooling a substance causes molecules to slow down and get slightly closer together, occupying a smaller volume that results in an increase in density.
From: www.middleschoolchemistry.com
the answer to your question is
volume
Answer:
The structure with the ring flipped is the most stable
Explanation:
We have the trans 1,2 - dimethylcyclohexane. With the wedge/dash structure we could not figure is this form is stable (If we do a comparison with the cis structure). But when we do a chair structure and ring flipped structure, this is easier to look.
The picture attached shows the structures, they are labeled as 1, 2 and 3, according to this problem.
In the chair structure, according to the picture below, you can see that both methyls are heading in the axial positions of the ring (One facing upward and the other downward). This is pretty stable, however, when the methyls are in those positions, the methyl position 1, can undergoes an 1,3 diaxial interactions with the hydrogens atoms (They are not drawn, but still are there), so this interaction makes this structure a little less stable that it can be.
On the other side, the ring flipped structure, we can see that both methyls are in the equatorials positions of the ring, and in these positions, it can avoid the 1,4 diaxial interactions with the hydrogens atoms, making this structure the most stable structure.
Hope this helps
a balanced chemical equation occurs when the number of the atoms involved in the reactants side is equal to the number of atoms in the products side.