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Research and Scientific Investigation Project By: &: Xam Buenavista
Research and Scientific Investigation Project By: &: Xam Buenavista
Structures in a
and
By Jane Maquiling
forces of attraction between a liquid and a solid surface are called adhesive
forces. The behaviour of a liquid in contact with a solid surface is
C
aggregate with no particular order, in which case they form
an amorphous solid (from the Greek morphos, meaning
rystalline solids have regular ordered arrays of
shapeless).
components held together by uniform intermolecular
forces, whereas the components of amorphous solids are
not arranged in regular arrays. The learning objective of
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the extraordinary rate of 4 1013 K/s, which prevents the amounts of thermal energy are needed to overcome these
atoms from arranging themselves into a regular array. different interactions. Consequently, amorphous solids tend
to soften slowly over a wide temperature range rather than
having a well-defined melting point like a crystalline solid. If
an amorphous solid is maintained at a temperature just
below its melting point for long periods of time, the
component molecules, atoms, or ions can gradually
rearrange into a more highly ordered crystalline form.
Solids are characterized by an extended three-dimensional
arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in which the
components are generally locked into their positions. The
components can be arranged in a regular repeating three-
The lattice of crystalline quartz (SiO2). The atoms form a regular arrangement in a
structure that consists of linked tetrahedra.
dimensional array (a crystal lattice), which results in a
crystalline solid, or more or less randomly to produce an
amorphous solid. Crystalline solids have well-defined edges
In an amorphous solid, the local environment, including both and faces, diffract x-rays, and tend to have sharp melting
the distances to neighboring units and the numbers of points. In contrast, amorphous solids have irregular or
neighbors, varies throughout the material. Different
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Materials
Scope and needed:
4 oranges
Limitations 4 calamansi
4 lemons
5 alligator wires
LED light bulb
This project is limited only on the ability of the fruits that are acidic
such as lemon, orange, calamansi as an alternative battery. Specifically, this is
to determine which fruit is potential and how many fruits are needed to light a
light bulb/LED light.
Procedures:
4. Grab the alligator wires then connect them to each nail and copper of
each fruits together.
6. In trial 2, do the same procedures but add one fruit to each set as well
as the alligator wire, copper wire and nail to increase the rate of
electricity that could light the bulb.
Figure 2.4: The LED light blinked a few times with the lemon circuit.
Interpretation of data
The graph shows the comparison between the other types of citrus
fruits (orange, calamansi, and lemon) in trials 1 and 2. Conclusion
Trial 1 The study has proven that lemons have the capacity that can generate
electricity among the other fruits. Furthermore, the more nails and coppers,
Number of fruits Fruits Observation the more electricity will be conducted and the more number of fruits, the more
3 Oranges No light the amount of electricity it will deliver.
3 Calamansi No light
3 Lemons No Light
Recommendation
The members of the group recommend increasing the quantity of
fruits, nails and copper wires to intensify the amount of voltage delivered by
Trial 2 the fruits in their experiment. They should put as much so that they can light
up light bulbs and other lights that require more voltage than LED lights do.
Number of fruits Fruits Observation Individuals who are interested with this kind of experiment should not reuse
4 Oranges No light the fruits nor use it for eating because dissolved components of the nails and
4 Calamansi No light copper are within the fruits. The fruits must be fresh to increase acidic content
4 Lemons With Light that could generate electricity in a light bulb.
FIRST TRIAL:
Did you know that?
There was no light among the fruits. Lemons are technically berries.
Lemon trees can produce up to 600
SECOND TRIAL: pounds in a year and can grow up
Light from the four lemons only blinked but did not remain for too long. The
other fruits did not light even if it was added and the wire, nail and copper to 20 feet tall!
were increased.
melting temperature by solutes in the liquid phase. Solutes in the liquid phase
also raise the equilibrium boiling temperature. Pressure also affects freezing
temperature (a little) and boiling temperatures (a lot).
represent molecules of the air, which is mainly nitrogen. The black circles changed, so the energy effect now dominates over a slightly larger range: the
(next picture) represent solutes. The sketches are not to scale. molecules of water in solution have to have slightly more energy (a slightly
higher temperature) in order for the two effects to be in balance. So the
boiling temperature is higher for a solution.
How does this affect the trade-off between the molecular energy and the Antifreeze. So, you might expect that the antifreeze in a radiator not only
molecular order? The gain in disorder on evaporation is now less, because the stops it freezing, but also helps stop it from boiling. However, the real
liquid water in solution is more disordered. The energy effect is hardly situation is more complicated: antifreeze has the disadvantage that it is not
quite as good as water at transporting heat. Ethylene glycol is one antifreeze. boiling temperature. Some people complain that this affects cooking and even
Salt is used to melt snow and ice on roads in cold countries, but it is not used the taste of tea at altitude.
in radiators because it is corrosive and crystallises readily. Sugar is not used in
some applications, because concentrated sugar solutions are viscous, and It is also true that pressure changes the melting temperature. However,
because they support bugs. However, many organisms use sugars and other because the volume occupied by a kilogram of liquid is not much different
small organic molecules as antifreeze. Seecryobiology. from that occupied by a kilogram of solid, this effect is very small unless the
pressures are very large. For most substances, the freezing point rises, though
An interesting observation: The concentration of solutes in blood is less than only very slightly, with increased pressure.
that in sea water, so the equilibrium freezing temperature of blood is usually
higher than that of sea water. Consequently, some Arctic and Antarctic fish Water is one of the very rare substances that expands upon freezing (which is
live at temperatures below the equilibrium freezing temperature of normal why ice floats). Consequently, its melting temperature falls very slightly if
blood. The bio-antifreeze in their blood is a protein that works in a way pressure is increased.
different from the anti-freeze used in car radiators: the antifreeze protein binds
to freezing nuclei and so permits the blood to remain supercooled. I have been asked: Does freezing point depression with pressure explain the low
friction under an ice-skate? I'm writing this in Sydney, so you might guess correctly
The effect of pressure that I don't know much about skating, but let's try to be quantitative. The Clausius-
Notice that above I've included the proviso "at atmospheric pressure" a few times. Clapeyron equation says that the ratio of the change in pressure times the change
The reason why the pressure is important is that, in the vapour phase, a given in specific volume to the latent heat of the phase change equals the ratio of the
change in transition temperature to the (absolute) melting or boiling temperature.
amount of a substance occupies a much larger volume than it does as a liquid. Some
It's often written as dP/dT = L/T*v. (As we might have guessed from dimensional
of the energy required to vapourise it goes towards 'pushing the air out of the way'
considerations i.e. just writing an equation involving the relevant parameters so
to make room for the amount evaporated. (The amount of work done is the product as to make the units correct.)
of the pressure P and the change in volume V. Technically, there is a PV term in
the latent heat.) So, at low pressure, it is easier to form the vapour phase and so the The weight of the skater is say 1 kN. I'm not a skater, but let's start with an estimate
boiling point is lower. The dependence of the transition temperature on pressure is of the skate-ice contact area as say 100 mm2. (The value depends on how far the
the Clausius-Clapeyron effect. (Again, being a bit technical, we note that this effect skate cuts into the ice. Say 200 mm long by 0.5 mm wide: skaters, is this
reasonable?) So, with this value, the pressure is increased by (1 kN)/100 mm2 =
involves energy - the work done in displacing air - whereas the solute effect involves 10 MPa. A kg of water (one litre) freezes to give about 1.1 litre of ice, so the change
entropy - the disordering of the liquid phase.) in specific volume is about 10-4 m3kg-1. The latent heat of fusion of ice is 330 kJ.kg-1.
So the proportional change in temperature is (10 MPa)(10-4 m3kg-1)/(330 kJ.kg-1),
Water expands a lot when it boils: one kilogram of water is one litre of liquid which is 0.3%. Multiply this by the melting temperature of ice (273 K) and, for this
area, we get an estimate of the temperature change of around 1 K = 1 C. So, with
water, but it becomes about 1700 litres of steam at atmospheric pressure. This these values, the calculation suggests that the pressure of an ice skate would reduce
means that even modest increases in altitude can measurably reduce the the melting temperature of ice by about 1 C. So, with this estimate for area and if
this were the cause of the slipperiness, ice skating would be possible only at
temperatures only one or a few degrees below freezing. From observation, it is
possible to ice skate on ice at much lower temperatures than this. To argue that * This explains why, above, I wrote that liquid water only exists if the
freezing point depression works over say 10C, we'd need an area of contact of a pressure is high enough. At pressures below 611 Pa, there are only two
skate about 10 mm2 or less. If only the sharp edges were in contact with the ice, this
might be possible, but it seems very low to me, because I'd expect the edges to cut
phases, and ice sublimes to form steam directly, without passing through a
into the ice and to increase the area of contact. (Again, I seek advice from skaters on liquid phase. (In this context, the reverse of 'to sublime' is not, as one might
this, and preferably from physicists who are also skaters.) have hoped, 'to ridicule'. At low pressures, steam condenses to form ice.)
Putting aside the Clausius-Clapeyron effect, and under conditions with only small Further complications - non-equilibrium phases
applied pressure, we'd expect the surface of ice is already somewhat slippery. At the I've made a simplification above and it's time to look at it. At atmospheric pressure,
surface of ice, water molecules are only have opportunities for hydrogen bonds to pure water does not always boil at 100C nor freeze at 0C. Superheating is the
their neighbours 'on one side', as it were. Consequently, their energy is not as low as
in bulk ice. So, at equilibrium, they must have a higher entropy. So, even at subzero
term for raising the temperature of a liquid above its equilibrium boiling point. I
temperatures, ice must have a thin water-like layer on the surface, whose thickness have a page on superheating in microwave ovens because it is so dangerous.
woud be expected to increase at temperatures close to melting.
Supercooling occurs when a liquid is cooled below its equilibrium freezing
The comparable calculation for boiling point change is a bit more complicated. The temperature. For example, water can sometimes be cooled as much as a few
latent heat in this case is larger (2.3 MJ-1) but the change in specific volume is much
larger (typically a few times 10-2 m3kg-1). So changes in altitude can change the
tens of degrees below 0C without freezing. This phenomenon is important in
boiling temperature, and going up a mountain can reduce it by as much as several cryobiology. See also What is 'unfreezable water'?
degrees.
When are the boiling temperature and freezing temperature equal? What happens
then?
For all substances, as we lower pressure, the boiling temperature falls much more
rapidly than does the freezing temperature. (For water, the freezing temperature
rises slightly at low pressure.) Hence the obvious question: Are the boiling
temperature and freezing temperature ever equal?
The answer is yes. At the low pressure of 611 Pa (only 0.006 times
atmospheric pressure), pure water boils at 0.01 C, and it also freezes at
0.01 C. The combination of conditions (P, T) = (611 Pa, 0.01 C) is called
the triple point of water because, at this pressure and temperature ice, liquid
water and steam can coexist in equilibrium. This point is used to define our
scale of temperature: by definition, the triple point of water occurs at
273.16 K, where K is the kelvin. 273.16 K = 0.01 C
Resources
http://www.majordifferences.com/2013/02/difference-between-
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http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/freezing-point-
depression-boiling-point-elevation.htm
https://chem.libretexts.org/Textbook_Maps/General_Chemistry_Textb
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