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"You didn't identify all the phases in your answer"???
« on: October 17, 2015, 09:28:32 PM »
Can someone explain what this means/ what I did wrong in the picture linked below?
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Re: "You didn't identify all the phases in your answer"???
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2015, 03:50:01 AM »
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Re: "You didn't identify all the phases in your answer"???
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2015, 05:53:32 AM »
It means what it says. You are asked to identify all the phases - i.e. for each of M, X2 and MX, is it solid, liquid, gas, solution etc.? It is a bad question because the elemental halogens are not all in the same phase at room temp!

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Re: "You didn't identify all the phases in your answer"???
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2015, 07:04:04 AM »
It means what it says. You are asked to identify all the phases - i.e. for each of M, X2 and MX, is it solid, liquid, gas, solution etc.? It is a bad question because the elemental halogens are not all in the same phase at room temp!
Thank you so much. I have always been taught that those are called "states" and I have never heard of them referred to as "phases" before.

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