Questions tagged [melting-point]
The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.
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Melting and boiling points of transition elements
The melting and boiling points of transition elements increase from scandium ($1530~\mathrm{^\circ C}$) to vanadium ($1917~\mathrm{^\circ C}$). They increase because as we go across the group, we have ...
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Trend in the melting point down the group
We know that the atomic radii increases down the group. So, less energy is required to pull out the outermost electron as we go down the group, hence, gradually melting point decreases down the group....
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Why does magnesium have an exceptionally low melting point?
Why does magnesium have a lower melting point than both calcium and beryllium? It does not seem to fit into the group trend.
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How do you melt metals with super high melting points?
At the Renaissance fair a few years back I was watching a smith forge metal into shapes. During this time a very odd question came to me. I was wondering what the furnace was made of. My logic stated ...
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What happens if you cool water in a container too small for it to freeze?
Freezing a full bottle of water tends to shatter the glass bottle. What if you used something tougher than glass, like diamond? What would happen if you kept dropping the temperature, but restrained ...
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How to RAISE the melting point of water?
It is common that adding common salt into water will lower its melting point. But, is there any way to RAISE the melting point of water? Does it lower the boiling point of water as well? Why?
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Why do impurities lower the melting point of an isolated substance?
It is known that impurities in a desired isolated product lower the melting point of the mixture, even if the impurities' melting point is much higher than the desired product. Why is that so?
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Is honey really a supersaturated solution? Does heating to un-crystalize redissolve it or melt it?
In the SciShow video Honey: Bacteria's Worst Enemy after about 00:30 the narrator says:
Honey is only about 17% water. Most, but not all of what remains is sugar. ...
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Why does silicon tetrafluoride have a higher melting point than sulfur tetrafluoride?
So looking at the Wikipedia pages of sulfur tetrafluoride and silicon tetrafluoride, the melting points are −121 °C and −90 °C respectively, and so $\ce{SiF4}$ has the higher melting point. However, ...
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Chaotic melting points of n-alkyl carboxylic acids
Is there any trend here at all? This seems very chaotic as a trend.
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Can you melt wood?
We talked about it in our chemistry class but we couldn't get to a conclusion, any help?
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melting and boiling ...really equilibrium? [closed]
Why are melting and boiling considered equilibrium processes even though the amount (concentration) of both phases keep changing i.e from solid to liquid and so on?
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Which substance has the highest temperature range between melting and boiling point
Which substances exist that are normally liquid and that will not freeze nor boil even at relatively low/high temperatures as compared to the freezing and boiling points of water? Or how can I ...
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Why do the melting and boiling points of the noble gases increase when the atomic number increases?
What causes the melting and boiling points of noble gases to rise when the atomic number increases? What role do the valence electrons play in this?
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What is the melting point of diamond?
Textbooks and the online reference differ about this and there are more than two answers.
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Boiling and melting point of trans- and cis-but-2-ene
The boiling point of trans-but-2-ene is lower than that of its cis isomer but the melting point of the former is higher than the later. Why is it not following the same order? Is there any factor of ...
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Why is the melting point of tert-butyl alcohol 140 °C higher than that of sec-butyl alcohol?
This is one of the most drastic differences in a physical property I've ever seen for two such similar molecules, and in a simplistic sense anyway the difference lies in the opposite direction from ...
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Why do the boiling and melting points decrease as you go down group 1 and vice versa for group 7?
I used to think that because an alkali metal needs to lose one electron to complete its outer shell, when the atom increases in size (atomic radius), the electron would be easier to lose as the ...
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Why does magnesium have the lowest melting point of all earth alkalis? [duplicate]
Why does magnesium have the lowest melting point of all earth alkali metals?
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For two compounds that are symmetrical, why does the more compact one have a higher melting point?
In this post, I refer to two molecules B (Di-tert-butyl ether) and C (Dibutyl ether).
Wikipedia: Di-tert-butyl ether (B)
b.p. 107.2 C
m.p. - 61 C
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Effect of impurities on melting point
This is a 10th-grade question.
The melting point of a substance decreases with increase in presence of impurities in it. The melting point of ice decreases from 0 °C to -22 °C on mixing salt in it ...
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Why does fcc lithium melt with increased pressure?
According to the phase diagram of lithium given here, the fcc phase formed at moderately high pressure melts at decreasing temperature upon adding more pressure, an effect better known with the ...
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Melting ice with salt - how does it start?
I know that salt reduces the melting point of ice. I can see how a little bit of salty water can melt ice to water which can dissolve even more salt. But how does it even start? There is ice, which is ...
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Why there is an exception in melting and boiling point in p block?
Why is the boiling point and melting point of 15th group and 16th group has an exception?
We know that as molecular mass increases boiling point and melting point also increase. So, down the group 15 ...
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Can every chemical compound be melted?
Are there any chemical compounds that disintegrate (without going into other chemical reactions; let's say in a vacuum) before reaching a melting temperature?
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Why don’t all objects melt and liquefy when heated sufficiently?
Certain objects such as metals, glass, plastic, sugar etc. melt when heated to a certain temperature but other materials such as a piece of wood, paper, a piece of rock etc. do not. Why is that?
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What makes some metals melt at higher temperature?
I'm looking at the melting temperature of metallic elements, and notice that the metals with high melting temperature are all grouped in some lower-left corner of the $\mathrm{d}$-block. If I take for ...
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Melting and boiling point trend in Group II
The following picture shows the melting and boiling point trends down group II elements.
I have added question marks where the variability in data was rather disturbing (over two hundred degrees ...
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Why is the melting point of p-dichlorobenzene higher than those of o-dichlorobenzene and m-dichlorobenzene?
I was going through alkyl and aryl halides and noted the following statement in my textbook:
p-dichlorobenzene has higher melting point and solubility than those of o-dichlorobenzene and m-...
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Why alkanes containing even number of carbons can be packed more efficiently than alkanes with odd number of carbon atoms?
Variation of boiling and melting points of alkanes with increase in the number of carbons
The odd-numbered alkanes have a lower trend in melting points than
even numbered alkanes. This is because ...
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How did Michael Faraday melt Sodium Chloride?
Michael Faraday melted sodium chloride in a silver spoon and ran an electric current through the molten salt, which released chlorine as a gas and left pure sodium behind.
Sodium chloride melts at $...
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Reasons for low melting point of gallium
J.D. Lee writes in Concise Inorganic Chemistry:
Gallium has an unusual structure. Each atom has one closest neighbor at a distance of 2.43 Å.
This remarkable structure tends towards discrete diatomic ...
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Caffeine boiling and melting points
According to both caffeine's PubChem page and ChemSpider page its boiling point lies at $\pu{173 °C}$ and its melting point at $\pu{\sim 235 °C}.$ How can it melt at that temperature if it already ...
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At what temperature does charcoal burn?
According to an old Wikipedia revision, charcoal burns at temperatures as high as 2600 °C. Other sources which seem less reliable give a figure of around 1000 °C. The Wikipedia article has since been ...
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How to separate alloys?
How do you separate metal alloys into their constituent elements, especially industrially? I don't think you can always use melting points, because alloys, depending on the composition (looking at ...
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The highest melting point
Inspired by this question, what is the substance or compound with the highest melting point? At standard atmospheric pressure and ever-increasing temperature which substance a) eventually becomes ...
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Does melting HDPE plastic produce toxic fumes? (melting, not burning)
● The question isn't about burning HDPE but melting it at the proper temperature. (At 120 to 180°C depending on it's density, it becomes gooey. According to the source below the "extrusion" ...
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Why do the melting points of Group 15 elements increase upto Arsenic but then decrease upto Bismuth?
The boiling points of group 15 elements increase on going down the group (or, as size increases) but the same is not true for the melting points. The melting points increase from $\ce{N}$ to $\ce{As}$ ...
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How to calculate which ionic compound has the highest melting point?
Which of the following compounds has the highest melting point: $\ce{PCl5}$, $\ce{H2O}$, $\ce{NaCl}$, $\ce{SrCl2}$, $\ce{CaF2}$?
In general, ionic compounds will have higher boiling points than those ...
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Crystal structure vs melting point
Calcium oxide has a melting point of $\ce{2700^\circ C}$ and sodium chloride has a melting point of $\pu{801^\circ C}$.
If they have the same crystal structure and ions are about the same distance ...
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What is the difference between melting and dissolving?
What is the difference between melting and dissolving? I am looking some general features.
The answer should be adaptable to the melting/dissolving of ice cube (water) in a class of pure alcohol (...
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How can sodium chloride melt ice or keep it frozen?
In European countries, they use $\ce{NaCl}$ or $\ce{KCl}$ to melt ice during the winter season.
In Asian Countries, they use $\ce{NaCl}$ to keep the ice without melting, for example in ice cream and ...
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Melting and boiling points of benzene and fluorobenzene
This species is a derivative of benzene, with a single fluorine atom
attached. Its melting point is -44 °C, which is lower than that of
benzene, indicative of the remarkable effect of fluorination ...
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How does ice melt?
I know that when water freezes, it forms a crystalline structure created by the hydrogen bonds between polar water molecules. Also, I know that during a phase change, the potential energy of the ...
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Making a super-eutectic
A eutectic system is a mixture of substances which has a lower melting point than any of it's components. For example salt to melt ice. Also, a eutectic has the right mixture of components so that it ...
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Lowest freezing point room temperature liquid?
What substance that is liquid at STP has the lowest freezing/melting point? I think it's either 2-methylpentane or 3-methylpentane, but I get different numbers from different sources.
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Avoiding snow melting with salt
I've been quite stunned during the last Winter Olympics in Sochi by the following fact.
Temperatures were quite high, sometimes 10° Celsius, and the organizers had to do something to prevent the snow ...
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Why do Mn and Tc have lower melting points with respect to their immediate neighbors but Re doesn't?
Manganese (Mn) and technetium (Tc) show a sharp decline in their melting point in comparison to the neighboring transition elements, which is unexpected while following the general trend which says ...
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At what temperature (in kelvin) are most of the elements on the periodic table liquids?
This question is out of pure curiosity.
At what temperature are a majority of the elements on the periodic table in a liquid state/phase of matter? For the purpose of this question, assume the ...
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The melting and boiling point decreases down the group up to group 14 (not including transition metals), but the trend reverses from group 15. Why?
In groups 1, 2, 13 and 14, the melting and boiling point decreases down the group with a few exceptions. In group 15 the melting/boiling point increases up to Arsenic and then started decreasing. In ...