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I had always thought quantum theory knocked determinism on the head, a century ago. Which is why Einstein found it so disturbing and unsatisfactory.

Hoho. Grotesquely, I see there was even some festival in Italy in which a version of this supposed relic was paraded annually, on the feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord (on 1st January, the Octave of Christmas, the feast day having been renamed by Pope John XXIII in honour of Mary). It seems there was a determined attempt to stamp out this particular superstition in 1900 or so, under threat of excommunication. But the business of relics in general continues of course, tolerated, if not officially approved, by the church. Facetious jokes aside, theologically, the circumcision of Christ has been considered symbolically important because it inducted him as a Jew, subject to the Law of Moses, it was the day he formally received his name, Jesus, and it was the first occasion on which his blood was spilled (seen as foreshadowing his eventual sacrifice on the cross).

Are there relics of wooden objects supposed made by Jesus?

This sounds like homework. Before we respond, what are your thoughts about the answers?

OK thanks for coming back to clarify. If you dissolve 2 salts and all the combinations of ions are soluble compounds, then you won't get any displacement reaction as such, you will just get a mixed solution with all the ions dissolved. For instance, NaCl(aq) + CuSO₄(aq) will just give a solution with separate Na⁺, Cu²⁺, Cl⁻ and SO₄²⁻ ions, all happily solvated and swimming around. That's because there is no combination that has markedly lower solubility than the others. (If you were to concentrate the solution enough you you would eventually exceed the solubility limit of the least soluble combination and you would start to get that one precipitating out. I don't know without looking it up which one that would be.) In your example. CaCO₃ (chalk, limestone) is well known to have limited solubility so that would precipitate, leaving you with NaCL(aq). KCl has similar solubility to NaCl. But if you are asking if there is a rule to predict which salts have high solubility and which ones have low solubility that gets involved and is quite hard. There are slightly handwavy explanations e.g. that when cations and anions are of similar size they pack more efficiently in the crystal structure, with small gaps, and thus tend to have a high lattice energy. This makes them reluctant to trade that stability for the attraction of a cage of polar water molecules. This is one explanation for why BaSO₄ is insoluble, for instance. Both are big ions, Ba because it is in the 6th row of the Periodic table and sulphate because it is compound ion in the shape of a nice tetrahedron so it can pack more or less like a sphere. Both also have a double charge on them which increases electrostatic attraction in the crystal and also makes it a bit harder for water to stabilise them fully when solvated. Carbonate does not pack like sulphate as it is a planar triangle, and you need to know a bit of crystallography to understand how efficiently it can form a structure with Ca. But Ca also has a double +ve charge so is a bit more challenging for water to stabilise in solution. So, to he honest, this kind of argument strikes me as being better at rationalising after the fact than really predicting with confidence. If this is a school level question I think you will just need to know which of the common salts are insoluble and which are soluble. You won't get asked about obscure combos. There is a rule of thumb in the link here which may help a bit: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/College_of_the_Canyons/Chem_201%3A_General_Chemistry_I_OER/04%3A_Introduction_to_Solutions/4.05%3A_Solubility_of_Ionic_Compounds

Yes we are I think. I'm rusty on all this so you may be just as likely to be right as me these days, but I think b is off-target as we don't know whether the reaction has been allowed to reach equilibrium. If you start with just left hand side reactants, say, it will take some time to generate enough right hand side products before equilibrium is reached. These thermodynamic quantities tell about what the equilibrium state will look like, not whether or not equilibrium has been reached. I think d is off target because a "spontaneous" reaction is generally said to be one in which ΔG is -ve.

It is unlikely domestic wooden artifacts of that type would have survived for 2000 years, even if Jesus did practice carpentry at some point, which seems unclear.

This is chemistry. If you insist on starting from first principles of physics every time when addressing a chemistry question, you will never reach an answer for anything but the most trivially simple systems. Physics can't accurately model anything in chemistry more complex than the hydrogen molecule ion. In chemistry the systems are far too complex for that type of approach. You don't seem to have understood the question that was asked. Nobody asked about energy release. You introduced that yourself and it's not relevant. I only included some comments about it in my reply because that was the aspect that seemed to interest you. Anyway, let's see if @jeff einstein responds to this thread. Then we may see if any of this has been useful.

I think the point abut c being wrong may be that the expression for K involves the product of concentrations of product species, raised to the appropriate power, divided by the product of concentrations of reactant species raised to the appropriate power. So K is not simply one concentration divided by another. (Also, strictly speaking K should involve activities rather than concentrations, though this may be too subtle for the test question you are describing.)

I don't think this is very helpful. It's obvious the reaction won't proceed unless ΔG for the process is -ve, but the poster will not have tables of Gibbs free energy to hand and should not need them. E=mc² is neither here nor there, and nor is activation energy in this context. Double displacement reactions generally involve ionic compounds in solution, exchanging partners, i.e. AB + CD -> AD + CB, A and C being cations and B and D being anions. What drives the reaction to the right is the removal of one of the two product species from solution, usually because it is insoluble and precipitates. All our poster needs to do is apply this idea to the examples he or she has been given. But of course it does require considering the charge on the various cations and anions involved, in order to come up with the right formulae for the reaction products, and knowing - or guessing - which of these salts are insoluble. An example would be BaCl₂(aq) + Na₂SO₄(aq) -> BaSO₄↓ + 2NaCl(aq). Both ionic compounds on the left are water soluble but barium sulphate is insoluble and precipitates, leaving only sodium chloride in solution. The driving force is the affinity for Ba²⁺ for SO₄²⁻, which prefer to bind to each other rather than to water molecules. (If you like to express it thermodynamically, ΔG is -ve for the process Ba²⁺(aq) + SO₄²⁻(aq) -> BaSO₄(s), or, conversely that barium sulphate has a +ve solvation energy in water, so it does not dissolve. However this is not really germane to the poster's question.)

But what does it mean to say the system “needs” to shed angular momentum? That suggests it has intent to do so, in order to keep itself together, which is not science. OK, I get that if it did not, it would not hold together, but why should these jets so conveniently arise?

You seem to be an idiot.

No. I'm applying Ockham's Razor. Your model would require an ad hoc extra explanation for the CBMR, which you have not supplied. Do you have one? Whereas the big bang hypothesis nicely accounts for both the observed red shift and the observed CMBR.

Of course not. It just means yours, which is the one we are discussing, doesn’t work.

What a terrible explanation. It ascribes intent to the star and fails to explain why the jets arise. The BBC so often these days treats its audience like children when it comes to science.

I think you need to check your neurological reference frame.

Why are you waffling about spirituality in a biology thread?

They say no such thing. Certain gases at high partial pressure produce narcosis while others do not, e.g. nitrogen vs. helium. Similarly, low partial pressure of oxygen makes sleeping difficult, but low pressure as such does not, cf. Astronauts breathing low pressure air enriched with oxygen and sleeping quite normally. if you don’t know what partial pressure is I can explain.

The big bang hypothesis accounts for the CMBR, whereas yours does not, evidently. So that is already one reason to reject yours in favour of the big bang. The CMBR is observed and as such is a test of these hypotheses. The big bang passes that test. Your hypothesis does not.

Oh I see, so you are thinking that we could not apply terrestrially developed physics and chemistry to the rest of the universe. Yes I suppose that would be the case.

It sounds like a variant on the now discredited "tired light" hypothesis. But, purely as an academic point, I doubt it would have much impact on chemistry or molecular physics, as the distances involved are so small, compared to those at which red shifting would be significant in such a hypothesis.

How would your idea account for the CMBR?

OK that makes sense. If they recovered the sub there might be no hooha.

This sounds very doubtful. "If the incident has occurred, the global silence is perplexing. A nuclear submarine sinking should lead to global attention because a nuclear reactor leak due to damage can have serious consequences, including water contamination," a submarine expert told the EurAsian Times." This report was on 4th October. There has been nothing since. If it were true, surely all manner of organisations would be up in arms about contamination risk etc. Failure of the oxygen system after a mere 6hrs seems most improbable. Nukes are designed to complete entire tours, lasting weeks, without the need to surface.

But why would a nuke have banks of lead acid batteries? Surely that would be in diesel electric subs. If it had been one of those, it would be discharging the batteries while submerged. To grossly overcharge them enough to generate H2S it would need to be on the surface with the engine running. So I’m a bit suspicious of this story. Especially since it seems to come from YouTube. Is there any corroboration from a reliable source?