Chemistry · Chapter 10

Ice to Steam, Joule by Joule

Feed heat into cold ice at a steady rate and watch the thermometer. It climbs, then stalls at 0 °C, climbs again, then stalls much longer at 100 °C. Every stall is a phase change paid for in full.

The heating curvewidth across the page is energy

The sampleice

Each dot stands for a group of molecules. During a stall some dots have changed and the rest have not, which is why solid and liquid share the beaker at 0 °C.

Warming the icesolid, below 0 °C
−25.0°C SOLID
Heat added0.00 kJ
Still to go–
This step is0% done

Mass of the sample: 50.0 g

speed

Where the energy goes50.0 g

StepEnergyShare

Specific heats used: ice 2.09, liquid water 4.184 and steam 1.84 J/g·°C. Heat of fusion 334 J/g. Heat of vaporization 2,260 J/g.

What you are seeing

Step 1 of 5
Warming the ice