In an experiment, student put equal volumes of mixtures of ethanoic acid in water and ethanoic acid in hexane in two test-tubes as shown below. In each test-tube, equal amounts of solid hydrogen carbonate were added.

      

In an experiment, student put equal volumes of mixtures of ethanoic acid in water and ethanoic acid in hexane in two test-tubes as shown below. In each test-tube, equal amounts of solid hydrogen carbonate were added.
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a) State the observation which was made in each test-tube.
b) Explain the observation in (a) above.

  

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John
a) Test tube 1: There is effervescence

Test tube 2: No effervescence

b) Ethanoic acid ionizes in water and the H+ reacts with sodium hydrogen carbonate hence effervescence. In hexane, ethanoic acid exists in form of molecules hence no reaction with the carbonate
johnmulu answered the question on April 21, 2017 at 10:05


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