Home
Class 9
CHEMISTRY
Small quantities of water and ether are ...

Small quantities of water and ether are placed on the palms of both the hands. Which will experience more cooling ?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The palm containing ether will experience extra cooling. Actually ether is more volatile than water. Therefore, it will evaporate at a faster rate than water. Since cooling is always caused during evaporation, the palm containing ether will become cooler.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • MATTER IN OUR SURROUNDINGS

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Test Your Knowledge|42 Videos

  • MATTER IN OUR SURROUNDINGS

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise MCQs|10 Videos

  • MATTER IN OUR SURROUNDINGS

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Long Answer Questions|10 Videos

  • IS MATTER AROUND US PURE

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise LAQs|10 Videos

  • STRUCTURE OF ATOM

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Long Answer Questions|6 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

when a small quantity of common salt is added to water

Large number of stones are placed in a small boat. The boat is floating in a water tank. If stones are unloaded in the water in the tank then which of the following are incorrect.

A U-shaped tube open to the air at both ends contains some mercury. A quantity of water is carefully poured into the left arm of the U-shaped tube until the vertical height of the water column is 15.0 cm . (a) What is the gauge pressure at the water mercury interface ? (b) Calculate the vertical distance h from the top of the mercury in the right hand arm of the tube to the top of the water in the left-hand arm. .

A glass is filled with water up to its brim and a thick hand card placed on top of it. Now keeping the card tightly closed and pressed with palm, the glass full of water is inverted and placed upside down. The palm is gently removed from the card. It is observed that the piece of card does not fall off the glass though the glass is full of water and its whole weight is exerting pressure on the card. Why does it happen?

A and B are two separate reservoirs of water. Capacity of reservoir A is double the capacity of reservoir Bdot Both the reservoirs are filled completely with water, their inlets are closed and then the water is released simultaneously from both the reservoirs. The rate of flow of water out of each reservoir at any instant of time is proportional to the quantity of water in the reservoir at the time. One hour after the water is released, the quantity of water is reservoir A is 1 1/2 times the quantity of water in reservoir Bdot After how many hours do both the reservoirs have the same quantity of water?