What happens when you add 50mL of sulfuric acid to 50mL of water at 25 C, does it stay at 25 or get hotter or get colder?
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It gets hotter - the temperature goes up above the temperature it started at.
That's because the process of adding strong acid to water is exothermic.
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The solution becomes hotter due to exothermic reaction
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Date of comment: Thu, May 6th 2010
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Date of comment: Thu, May 6th 2010
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