Question

If you put a drop of food coloring in water and watch the drop disperse, is entropy increasing or decreasing? A. Entropy is increasing. B. Entropy is decreasing.C. Entropy does not change.

Answer 1

Answer: The answer is "C"

Step-by-step explanation:

The entropy of a substance is referred to as the degree of disorderliness in a reaction. There is no reaction between food colourant and water. Therefore, introducing the food colourant into the water neither increases or decrease the orderliness of the water. This makes it to remain the way it was before the introduction of the food colourant. Therefore, the entropy does not change in the case of introducing food colourant to water. Answere is C.

Answer 2

Option-(B): Entropy is increasing.

Step-by-step explanation:

Entropy:

It basically the measure of disturbance added to a more stable system.As the alien elements or foreign particles are added to the system having some fixed properties or features placed in a specific beaker or region.

For example:

If you put a drop of food coloring in water and watch the drop disperses inside the medium it is just because there new molecules inside it. And a new pattern of the atomic structures has taken place. As the different elements inside the medium will now arrange themselves in a different manner. As the increase in the disturbance inside the medium has occurred which is also referred to as the increase in level of entropy.