Name: Thea Brigette L.

Vergara Date: March 08,2021

Section: Grade 12-STEM Pythagoras General Chemistry 2 (LM2)

Checkpoint
Essential Questions

1. If 100 g of NaOH is dissolved into 300mL of ethanol, name the solute and the solvent.

Solute: 100 g of Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)

Solvent: 300 mL of ethanol (C2H6O)

2. What does “like dissolves like” mean?

The phrase “like dissolves like” demonstrates and illustrates a general rule about
solutes and solvents wherein substances with the same chemical traits and characteristics
will dissolve in each other. To put it simply, polar solutes dissolve in polar solvents and
non-polar solutes dissolve in non-polar solvent. For instance, salt and water. Sodium
chloride is a polar compound and so is water, therefore salt can be dissolved in water.
However, a polar solute can never be dissolved in non-polar solvent. Likewise, a non-
polar solute can not be dissolved in a polar solvent.

3. How does increasing the temperature of a solid affect its solubility? What about for gas?
Generally, most solids increase their solubility when there is an increase in
temperature since higher temperature comes with an increase in kinetic energy enables
the solvent molecules to more effectively break apart or dissolve the solute molecules
that are held together by intermolecular attractions. However, for gases dissolved in a
liquid, when the temperature increases, its solubility decreases. This is because the
kinetic energy of a gas increases as the temperature increases which makes the gas
molecules dissolved in a liquid more likely to enter the gas phase.

4. What types of solutions you encountered every day? (give 5)

TYPE Solute Solvent Example
Solid-Solid Zinc Copper Brass
Solid-Liquid Sodium Chloride Water Salt dissolved in water
Liquid-Liquid Acetic Acid Water Vinegar
Gas-Gas Oxygen, Carbon Nitrogen Air
dioxide, etc.
Gas-Liquid Carbon Dioxide Water Carbonated Water