Which of the following processes is expected to have the largest increase in entropy?
Correct Answer: Sublimation of solid iodine to gas
- Step 1: Understand what entropy means. Entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness in a system.
- Step 2: Identify the processes being compared. Look for processes that involve changes in states of matter (solid, liquid, gas).
- Step 3: Recognize that solids are more ordered than liquids, and liquids are more ordered than gases.
- Step 4: Determine which process involves a change from a more ordered state to a less ordered state.
- Step 5: In this case, sublimation of solid iodine to gas means the solid iodine (ordered) turns into iodine gas (disordered).
- Step 6: Conclude that this process has the largest increase in disorder, and therefore the largest increase in entropy.
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