Is polystyrene releasing or absorbing heat?

In a popular classroom demonstration, solid sodium is added to liquid water and reacts to produce hydrogen gas and aqueous sodium hydroxide. part a write a balanced chemical equation for this reaction. express your answer as a chemical equation. identify all of the phases in your answer.

Consider the reaction of a(g) + b(g) + c(g) => d(g) for which the following data were obtained: experiment initial [a], mol/l initial [b], mol/l initial [c], mol/l initial rate, mol/l.s 1 0.0500 0.0500 0.0100 6.25 x 10^-3 2 0.100 0.0500 0.0100 2.50 x 10^-2 3 0.100 0.100 0.0100 1.00 x 10^-1 4 0.0500 0.0500 0.0200 6.25 x 10^-3 what is the rate law for the reaction?

28. which is not a reason that water is used to store spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants? water increases the speed of the chain reaction in the fuel rods. water protects nuclear power plant workers from the high temperature and radiation of the fuel rods. water acts as a radiation shield to reduce the radiation levels. water cools the spent rods. salts action