The purpose of this experiment was to determine the thermodynamic properties of the entropy, enthalpy and free energy, as well as the solubility product of borax as a function of temperature from the dissolution of borax in an aqueous solution. Thermodynamics is the study of heat and its transformations. The properties of thermodynamics are entropy, enthalpy and free energy. The properties of thermodynamics can be viewed in terms of spontaneity. Spontaneity is a spontaneous change of a system that occurs by itself under specific conditions, without input of energy from the surroundings. Entropy, ΔS˚, is the tendency for the universe to move towards more disorder. If the value for entropy was negative, then the amount of disorder within a system
