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The enthalpy changes on freezing of 1 mol of water at 5C to ice at 5C is:
(Given fusH=6KJmol1 at 0C
CP(H2O,l)=75.3Jmol1K1
CP(H2O,S)=36.8Jmol1K1)
a.) 5.81KJmol1
b.) 6.56KJmol1
c.) 6.00KJmol1
d.) 5.44KJmol1

Answer
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Hint: The enthalpy of water is changing from 5C to 5C. So, enthalpy would be changing three times. First time would be when water is cooled from to 0C, second time would be fusion of liquid at 0C at the same temperature and third time would be by changing the temperature of ice from 0C to 5C.
The correct answer is B.

Step by Step answer:
Step 1 would be to bring down the temperature that cooling down of water from 5C to 0C
So, enthalpy change would be equal to product of number of moles into CP(H2O,l) which is then multiplied by change in temperature.
Therefore,
enthalpy change =n×Cp(H2O,l)×ΔT=1×75.3J/mol/K×(50)C=367.5J=0.3765kJ......(1)
Here, n represents the number of moles of water which are given as 1 , Cp​(H2​O,l) is the specific heat of liquid water which is given in question and ΔT is temperature change and temperature is brought down from 5Cto 0C

Also 1kJ=1000J

Step 2 is Liquid water at 0C is fused at the same temperature.
So the enthalpy change would be equal to the number of moles multiplied by fusion heat.

The enthalpy change =nΔfusH=1×6kJ/mol=6kJ......(2)

Step 3 would be Ice at 0C is cooled down to ice at 5C
So, the enthalpy change would be equal to the number of moles multiplied by specific heat which in turn is multiplied by change in temperature.

The enthalpy change =nCp(H2O,s)ΔT=1×36.8J/mol/K×(0(5))C=184J=0.184kJ......(3)

where, n stands the number of moles of ice which is 1, Cp​(H2O, l) is the specific heat of ice which is given in question and ΔT is temperature change which is equal to 5. Also, 1kJ=1000J

Add (1), (2) and (3)
Total enthalpy change would be equal to the sum of all the three changes in enthalpy happening during the process.

The enthalpy change for entire process =0.3765kJ+6kJ+0.184kJ=6.56kJmol1

The enthalpy change for the entire process would be equal to 6.56kJ/mol which is option B.
Note: Enthalpy change is the amount of the heat released or absorbed in the reactions at constant pressure.
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