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What doe endothermic mean?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 9/7/2022

Endothermic means, literally, "within-heating". It is usually used in reference to chemical reactions and is used to describe a chemical reaction that absorbs heat from its surroundings to create chemical bonds. A good way to tell if a reaction is endothermic or not is to feel the outside of the container it is in (cautiously!). An endothermic reaction feels cool to the touch. This is how those cold packs that don't need to be refrigerated work.

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Ferne Streich

Lvl 13
3y ago

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