Question

The atmosphere of Earth is an example of a ____ solution. (1 point)
A. liquid-liquidB.gas-liquidC.gas-gasD.solid-liquid

Answer 1

for high school answer would be B cause you have liquid water in atmosphere which you can sometimes see as rain, but for higher level of education you can dispute that question easily...

Answer 2

is that liquid water in the sky? or vaporized gaseous H_2O? are clouds solids?

Answer 3

well then tell me how does rain fall if water doesn't condense into liquid state!

Answer 4

well snow falls and that isn't a liquid why count rain and not snow/.

Answer 5

I would define atmosphere as the sphere of gasses,
and i would push rain into the hydroshpere

Answer 6

cause water is constantly condensing and evaporating due to low atmospheric pressure and snow falls only in certain conditions when in lower atmosphere there is lower temperature so that water can crystallize into snow. now when you separate hydrosphere from atmosphere you need to separate it consequently in other dividents, if gathered it right question is about atmosphere in global where if we are going in to dispute also are and solid particles....

Answer 7

so that question is more matter of phylosophy and not chemistry...

Answer 8

I guess the clouds and snow would be apart of the cryosphere

Answer 9

Can we agree to eliminate A. and D.

Answer 10

of course

Answer 11

so
B.gas-liquid
or
C.gas-gas
__________
Would you really say Earths atmosphere is a gas-liquid solution /

I would say the Earths atmosphere is a gas-gas;
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1%Argon, 0.04% CO_2, ~1% H_2O(vapor) and other trace gasses mixed in solution

Answer 12

then we come to next step what is a solution... if you take one molecule of NaCl and put it in 1 * 10^50 L of water is that a solution?!

Answer 13

~

Answer 14

i dont think it would be

Answer 15

it could not be measured to be a salt solution

Answer 16

well the point that you cant measure it is just a example of bad sampling! if you from all that water took a can and grabbed just those two atoms and mesured you would get a response in instrument!

Answer 17

But ht error in the measurement would have to greater than ±one atom, How could you be sure your instrument was atomically clean, ,
Besides if the particular ions were Measured by the instrument would they not be removed from the sample ..

Answer 18

ok this is going off topic and turning in to a dispute over what is solution for god's sake!

Answer 19

ok so concerning the topic lets say that you have 1% solution and lets agree that it is a solution, isnt that then a concernable amount of any kind of molecules cause that 1% of water is a huge amount!

Answer 20

Yeah but when i am thinking of what is the atmosphere i think it is a solution of 2 main gasses ~4/5 of Nitrogen and ~1/5 of Oxygen

Answer 21

ok but you can't forget all other components of atmosphere however small part they are but they exist and you could call them infinite solutions but they are still there!