CaCl2 (s) + 2 H2O → Ca(OH)2 (aq) + 2 HCl (g) When Addie added CaCl2 to the water in her flask, she noted that the flask heated u
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The solution shall contain only (and water) at the equivalence point. Both potassium hydroxide and nitric acid exist as strong electrolytes. As a result,
, the salt derived from a reaction between the two species would undergo hydrolysis of a negligible extent. This neutralization reaction therefore be neutral at the equilibrium point.
The question states that the solution is "titrated with a ... nitric acid solution" indicating that is added to the initially-basic solution. PH value of the solution would keep decreasing as the volume of the acid added increases. The final solution would be acidic as it contains not only water and
, but some
as well. Bromothymol blue would therefore demonstrates a yellow color, the color it present in an acidic solution, at the end of the titration.
Answer : The metal used was iron (the specific heat capacity is ).
Explanation :
In this problem we assumed that heat given by the hot body is equal to the heat taken by the cold body.
where,
= specific heat of unknown metal = ?
= specific heat of water =
= mass of unknown metal = 150 g
= mass of water = 200 g
= final temperature of water =
= initial temperature of unknown metal =
= initial temperature of water =
Now put all the given values in the above formula, we get
Form the value of specific heat of unknown metal, we conclude that the metal used in this was iron (Fe).
Therefore, the metal used was iron (the specific heat capacity is ).