Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding basically every single chemical reaction, so I don't really know how to ask it, but I ask it with the example of water and oil not mixing.
So, water can do a lot of hydrogen bonding. Oil can not. So water hangs out by himself to maximise the amount of bonds --> lower the energy of the system.
However, as energy can't be destroyed, that bonding energy would be somewhere else if water and oil started to mix. Would it be heat? So why does the energy "prefer" to be in hydrogen bonds compared to heat? From what I'm starting to understand almost everything is due to increasing entropy, is that the answer here as well? However I fail to understand why extra bonds would increase the entropy compared to extra heat.
Thanks!