Imagine That You Fill a Shallow Tray with Water and Place

question 81

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you fill a shallow tray with water and place a drop of red ink in one end of the tray and a drop of green ink in the other end. Which of the following is TRUE at equilibrium?

• A) The concentration of each ink is higher at one end of the tray than at the other end.
• B) No predictions can be made without knowing the size of the ink molecules.
• C) The red and green inks are both uniformly distributed throughout the tray.
• D) The red ink is uniformly distributed in one half of the tray, and the green ink is uniformly distributed in the other half of the tray.
• E) The red and green ink do not mix at all.

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