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Yeah Oh okay Aspiring people More weird signs for you

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Here we go Here's the frame when walking into a

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warm building from the cold outside you're greeted with a

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blast of warm air No that's soothing Warm air was

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acting to balance with the cold air outside Well this

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is one of the universe's irreversible process is across the

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universe Things are becoming more and more disordered That means

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that over time the variations in the physical properties of

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the universe such as temperature pressure and chemistry are moving

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towards a state of balance Well the intermingling of the

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warm and cold air in the example above is a

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type of diffusion Yeah that's what diffusion is Well students

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are tasked with carrying out a series of experiments involving

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diffusion in liquids they're given to different white crystals One

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made up of lead nitrate That's P b n o

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three there and one made up of potassium iodide K

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I Well the students placed the crystals in a dish

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filled with water A reaction occurs that causes the lead

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and the potassium to switch places Yeah like that movie

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with those earning that orange haired girl All right well

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let atoms are more massive than potassium Adams and move

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more slowly at the same temperature You have a hot

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in the water The faster the crystals dissolve and the

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faster the reaction larger the volume all the longer it

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takes to complete diffusion Okay moving on a student places

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the two crystals in cold water Will the reaction take

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place faster or slower than if the student had used

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warm water Faster or slower Cold water well We've been

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placing a French book under our pillows at night in

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hopes that we'll learn through osmosis But no it ain't

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working Salon Marche pas certain friends Well maybe we need

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to learn something about the process of diffusion first Well

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the description above says that the hotter the water the

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faster the crystals dissolved and the faster the reaction Yeah

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Then they dissolved his reaction So we can infer that

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cold water the opposite will slow down the rate at

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which the reaction takes place Duck Our reactions are slower

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when it's cold too But that may be from all

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the layers of clothing we have on Yeah so the

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answer to our French problem might be a heated waterbed

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about that All right now Well for this problem the

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answer just be slower and we're clearly getting that way 00:02:33.74 --> [endTime] in our old age

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