11 - CHEMISTRY HEATING AND COOLING CURVES
What is the melting point of this substance?
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1. A sample of water is heated from a liquid at 40 C to a gas
o (1) 30oC (2) 55oC (3) 90oC (4) 120oC
at 110 C.
a) On the heating curve diagram provided above,
label each of the following regions:
Liquid, only
Gas, only
Phase change
b) For section QR of the graph, state what is
happening to the water molecules as heat is
added.
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c) For section RS of the graph, state what is
happening to the water molecules as heat is
added.
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2. The graph below represents the heating curve of a
substance that starts as a solid below its freezing point.
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WORKSHEET 1
Base your answers to questions 3 through 5 on the information
below.
Given the heating curve where substance X starts as a solid
below its melting point and is heated uniformly:
3. Identify the process that takes place during line
segment DE of the heating curve.
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4. Using "o" to represent particles of substance X,
draw at least five particles as they would appear
in the substance at point F.
5. Describe, in terms of particle behavior or energy,
what is happening to substance X during line
segment BC.
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6. Sketch the heating curve for pure water,
between -10oC and 110 oC. Mark in the
temperatures at which water changes state, and
its state for each sloping part of the graph.
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 11 - CHEMISTRY HEATING AND COOLING CURVES WORKSHEET 1
7. A cooling curve shows how the temperature of 1. a 9. The graph shows the phase of change of crushed ice (-20
) when it was heated in the beaker.
substance changes with time, as it is cooled from
a gas to a solid. Below is a cooling curve for one
substance:

A. What is the name of change observed in the beaker

along the QR section of the graph?
a) What is the state of the substance at room
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temperature (20oC)?
B. What is the specific NAME of the temperature
b) Use the list of melting and boiling points below to
corresponding to the QR section of the graph?
identify the substance
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Substance Melting point/oC Boiling
C. Assume that the ice was pure and was heated under
Point/oC
normal atmospheric pressure. What would happen
Oxygen -219 -183 to the temperature reading corresponding to the SX
Ethanol -15 78 section of the graph?
Sodium 98 890 ____________________________________________________________
Sulphur 119 445 ____________________________________________________________
Iron 1540 2900
Diamond 3550 4832 D. What phase of ice is observed in the beaker along
the RS section of the graph?
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8. The graph below is a heating curve for a pure
substance. It shows how the temperature rises E. Write an equation giving states for the phase change
occurring along the SX section.
with time, when the solid is heated until it melts,
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and then liquid is heated until it boils
F. Assume that the ice was pure, but it was heated
under twice the normal atmospheric pressure.
What would happen to the temperature reading
corresponding to the SX section of the graph?
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G. Why does the temperature remain steady along the

QR section of the graph?
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A What is the melting point of the substance?

B What is its boiling point?

C What happens to the temperature while the substance

changes state?

D How can you tell that the substance is not water?

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