Answer to Question #147819 in General Chemistry for Grishma

Question

A factory where rock salt is kept in its liquid state loses power. The vat that contains the liquid rock salt begins to cool. The factory manager measures the temperature after 1 hour and again after 3 hours. Both readings show that the temperature of the salt is 801°C. What would you expect to see in the vat after 2 hours? Explain why you would expect to see this.Hint: Why would the temperature remain the same for 2 hours?

Answer 1

Heat transfer is a dynamic process in which heat is transferred spontaneously from one body to 

another cooler body.

For heat transfer:

$rate of heat transfer =$ $temperature difference\over heat flow resistance of medium$

During processing, temperatures may change and therefore the rate of heat transfer will change in a process called unsteady-state heat transfer,contrary to steady-state heat transfer when the temperatures do not change.

Due to thermal conductivity, the temperature remains steady at $801°C$ for the two hours. The thermal conductivity of the water of effevescence in salt remains fairly constant