Chemistry 0620 · IGCSE · Exothermic and endothermic reactions

Exothermic and endothermic reactions — practice question

The diagrams illustrate four items of laboratory equipment: a balance, a pipette, a stop-clock and a thermometer. Which piece of equipment is needed to determine whether dissolving a salt in water is an exothermic process?

  • Abalance ✗, pipette ✗, stop-clock ✗, thermometer ✓
  • Bbalance ✓, pipette ✗, stop-clock ✗, thermometer ✓
  • Cbalance ✗, pipette ✓, stop-clock ✗, thermometer ✓
  • Dbalance ✓, pipette ✗, stop-clock ✓, thermometer ✗

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