According to the principle of the conservation of mass, the mass of the sodium sulfate was the following:

Substance x has a fixed volume, and the attraction between its particles is strong .substance y had widely spread out particles and can be compressed what can most likely be concluded about these substances

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The small bags of silica gel you often see in a new shoe box are placed there to control humidity. despite its name, silica gel is a solid. it is a chemically inert, highly porous, amorphous form of sio2. because water vapor readily adsorbs onto the surface of silica gel, it acts as a desiccant. despite not knowing mechanistic details of the adsorption of water onto silica gel, from the information provided you should be able to make an educated guess about the thermodynamic characteristics of the process. predict the signs for δg, δh, and δs for the adsorption of water.