You are on a relaxing cruise in the warm waters of the Caribbean. All of a sudden, your yacht hits a reef and begins to go down. You and your friends start to pump up the little yellow life raft. You are all working in the shade of the sails, where it is cool. They say the raft should be blown up to its maximum volume. You, knowing about gas laws from chemistry, argue that it should only be blown up about 80% full. Explain, using gas law terms, why your option is the best.

beta decay is the answer

thats how its supposed to be

a. energy is absorbed in the reaction.

if in a given reaction the energy of products is greater than the energy of reactants it means that reaction is endothermic and during the reaction, the energy is absorbed by reactants. in an endothermic reaction, the products have more stored chemical energy than the reactants. and in this reaction the reactants are more stable than products before the compounds with less energy are always more stable.