If water can, could other substances too? Alcohol? Mercury?
2006-12-22 02:21:33 · 7 answers · asked by bohdan 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Assuming the temperature is high enough and the material doesn't break down prior to evaporation, ALL materials will evaporate.
Alcohol does evaporate. When you put some on your hands, where to you think it goes. Mercury not only evaporates, but will reach air saturation at 200 times the Maximum Allowable Concentration (i.e. it gets to 200 times it's toxic level in air).
2006-12-22 02:38:57 · answer #1 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, alcohols can evaporate and mercury can evaporate. In fact, the vapor form of mercury is the most dangerous because we can then inhale it into our bodies.
You do not state the temperature conditions, so anything can evaporate. The three common phases of matter are solid, liquid, and vapor (gas). Any time the molecules of a material have enough energy to escape their attractive forces around them they can evaporate.
2006-12-22 02:32:52 · answer #2 · answered by physandchemteach 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course. Other then water liquids like mercury and alcohol can also evaporate as they are also having a boiling point at which they evaporate, like water evaporates at 100 C.
2006-12-22 02:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Praraj Ranka 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes many other substances evaporate. Many substances are much more volatile than water such as acetone (finger nail polish remover) and vaporize at lower temperatures than water. This is related to the vapor pressure which is dependent on the temperature and the substance. Alcohols, of which there are many, you are probably referring to ethanol, is more volatile than water, mercury, a metal, is much less volatile than water.
2006-12-22 05:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Annie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything can evaporate given the right temperature. The three states are solid, liquid and gas.
With water we can see these three states, ice, water and steam.
Mercury is a metal and at room temperature we see it in the liquid form, heat it up and it will turn into a gas, cool it down and it will turn into a solid.
Lava, for example are rocks in the liquid form, if they could be heated more they would turn into a gas.
2006-12-22 02:33:29 · answer #5 · answered by fizz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol evaporates, as do many other organic liquids. I don't think mercury does, not at room temperature anyway.
2006-12-22 02:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very much so. Find some website with the boiling points of different chemicals. Boiling a liquid will turn it into a gas.
2006-12-22 02:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by curious_eater 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋