Lab Safety Rule #3 says to always add acids or bases to the solvent and NEVER the other way around true or false?

true

Explanation:

The standard laboratory rule is to always add acids or bases to solvent and not the other way round.

The dissolution of concentrated acids/bases in solvents (water) generates heat energy. Thus, if the solvent is added to them, a layer of hot weak acid or base will be formed and this will boil and spray around, causing an explosion.

On the other hand, if acid/base is added to solvents, they flow into the solvents and get diluted immediately without any boiling taking place. Hence, it is safe to add acid/base to solvents and not the other way round.

out of these options:

ability to burn paper

pure sodium reacting violently with water

the boiling point of water

helium does not tend to react with anything

i would say this is a physical property:

helium does not tend to react with anything

why? :

i said helium does not tend to react with anything because well, it reacts to ! but ability to burn paper, pure sodium reacting violently with water, & the boiling point of water are chemical or

physical properties: the properties of a substance that can be observed without changing the chemical makeup of the substance

chemical properties: properties of a substance relating to the chemical nature and reactivity of the substance

it forms an anion that has a larger radius. anions have a negative charge and are larger than the original atom.