6 Flashcards
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Chem: what is the equation for atom economy
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Chem: what type of atoms are used in and what happens in covalent bonding
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2 or more non-metals, sharing electrons
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Chem: what happens in metallic bonding and in what type of atoms
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Positive metal ions in a sea of delocalised negative electrons, in metals
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Chem: what happens in ionic bonding and in what type of atoms
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Gives/takes electrons, metals and non-metals
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Chem: what is a activation energy
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The minimum energy required to start a chemical reaction
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Chem. what is an energy profile
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A graph showing energy change during a chemical reaction
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Chem: what is an exothermic reaction
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A chemical reaction that releases energy
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Chem: what is an endothermic chemical reaction
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A chemical reaction that takes in energy
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Chem: what happens in a chemical reaction
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Bonds are broken and formed and atoms are rearranged
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Chem: how thick is one nm in terms of atoms
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10 atoms thick
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Chem: order in terms of size, from smallest to largest, coarse particles, nano particles and fine particles
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Smallest - largest: nanoparticles, fine particles, coarse particles
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Chem: what is the size of coarse particles
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2500 to 10000 nm
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Chem: what is the size of fine particles
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100 to 2500 nm
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Chem: what is the size of nano particles
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1 to 100 nm thick
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Chem: is the anode the positive or negative electrode in electrolysis
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Positive
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Chem: is the cathode positive or negative in electrolysis
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Negative
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Chem: is an anion positive or negative
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Negative
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Chem: is a cation positive or negative
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Positive
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Chem: what happenes at the negative electrode in electrolysis of aqueous solutions
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Hydrogen atom forms , only if the metal is more reactive than it
Also electrons transferred to ion to make it an atom
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Chem: is electrolysis of aqueous solutions what happens at the positive electrode
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Oxygen produced, unless a halogen present then the halogen is produced
Electron transferred from ion to positive electrode
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Chem: what is an aqueous solution
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Something dissolved in water
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Chem: what is the definition of electrolysis
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Electrolysis is the process of splitting ionic compounds using electric current
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Chem: how do you work out moles of an atom
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Moles= mass / formula mass
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Chem: how do you work out the formula mass (Mr) of a molecule
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It is the sum of the elements in the molecule
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Chem: work out the Mr of K ₂O if the formula mass of of K is 39 and O is 16
39+39+16=94
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Chem: How do you write ionic equations
Split the equation so
- NaOH ( aq ) + HNO 3 ( aq ) → NaNO 3 ( aq ) + H 2 O ( l ) would become
- Na + OH ( aq ) + H + NO 3 ( aq ) → Na + NO 3 ( aq ) + H 2 + O ( l )
- Then cross out the portions that do not change their charge, this becomes
- OH ( aq ) + H → H 2 O ( l )
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Chem: what is an ionic equation
It is a chemical equation with all of the things that do not change charge removed
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Chem: what is oxidation
Oxidation is the loss of electrons and the gain of oxygen
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Chem: what is reduction
It is the gain of electrons and hydrogen and the loss of oxygen
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Chem: in electrolysis does reduction or oxidation occur at the positive electrode
Oxidation
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Chem: in electrolysis does oxidation or reduction occur at the negative electrode
Reduction
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Chem: what is a half equation
Electrons are represented, they are 2 equations that show how electrons are transferred at each electrode in electrolysis
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Chem: what is the equation for complete combustion
Hydrocarbon + oxygen -> carbon doxide + water
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Chem: what is the equation for incomplete combustion
Hydrocarbon + oxygen -> carbon doxide + water + carbon monoxide
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Chem: what is the definition of carbon footprint
this is the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are emitted over the full lifecycle of a product, service or event
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Chem what is carbon foorptprint offsetting
Say you buy a plane ticket, planting trees to offset the greenhouse gasses released by the journey
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Chem: what is the order of events for the formation of life
Volcanoes, oceans, algiae, plants, animals
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Chem: what are the percentages of gasses in the atmosphere
Nitrogen-78, oxygen-21, other gasses-1
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Chem: what are the 4 alkanes you need to remember
Methane, ethane, propane, butane
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Chem: what is crude oil made of
Fossilised plankton
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Chem: what is the definition of a mixture
A substance composed of 2 or more differeent compounds or elements not chemically bonded
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Chem: what is ionic bonding and in what types of elements does it occur
Giving/taking electrons
Between metals and non metals
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Chem: what is covalent bonding and in what type of elements does it occur
Sharing electrons
2 non metals
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Chem: what is metallic bonding and in what type of elements does it occur
Sea of delocalised electrons
Metals
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Chem: what are the properties of covalently bonded substances
- Non-conductive(no charged particles that can carry a charge)
- low melting point
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Chem: what are the properties of ionically bonded substances
- Conduct when dissolved in water
- hard and brittle
- high melting and boiling points.
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Chem: what defines potable water
It is safe to drink, it should have low levels of dissolved salts and of microbes.
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Chem: what are the 2 ways of getting potable water from salt water
Distillation , reverse osmosis
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Chem: what is reverse osmosis
It is osmosis where the water moves from low to high concentration because of large amounts of pressure
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Chem: what is distillation
Where a liquid is evaporated and collected from a mixture
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Chem: what are the 3 ways water us steralized
UV, chlorine, ozone
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Chem: what is pure water
Water that is not in a mixture
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Chem: how many cm3 in a dm3
1000
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Chem: how do catalysts work
They change the reaction pathway
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Chem: what are the 5 factors that affect rate of reaction
- temp
- concentration
- catalyst
- pressure
- surface area
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Chem/bio: how do enzymes make things react
They lower the activation energy
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Chem: what is a the difference between weak and strong acids
Weak acids have low amounts of ionised hydrogen ions, whereas in strong acids there is a large amount of ionised hydrogen ions
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chem: what is a mole
1 mol is the amount of substance that contains the same number of particles as there are atoms in 12.0 g of carbon-12, its the 6.02 x10^23 atoms of carbon 12
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chem: what is percentage yield
actual yield / theoretical yield x 100
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chem: what is the equation for relative formula mass
adding up all of the relative atomic masses of the atoms in a formula
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Chem: what is the difference in amount of hydrogen ions between PH 2 and PH 1
10x, each jump is a gap of 10x as it is what i think is a log arythem edit if I'm wrong Felix
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Chem: what hydrogen ions constitute acids, are they positive or negative
H+ ions
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Chem: what hydrogen ions constitute alkalise, shat charge are they
OH- ions
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chem: in electrolysis does reduction happen at the cathode or anode
cathode
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chem: in electrolysis does oxidation happen at the cathode or anode
anode
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Chem: what is the difference between giant and simple covalent bonding
- **Simple covalent** - fixed number of atoms in the structure
- **giant covalent** - undefined amount of atoms.
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Chem: why do simple covalent compounds have low melting and boiling points
The have weak intermolecular forces, this means less energy is needed to overcome these forces
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Chem: what is the difference between atomic and intermolecular forces
Atomic forces are forces within an atom and intermolecular forces are the forces between atoms.
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Chem: what are the properties of simple covalent compounds
Low melting and boiling point, do not conduct
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Chem: what are the properties of giant covalent
High melting and boiling point.
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Chem: what are the properties of ionic compounds
High melting and boiling points, when molten or dissolved the conduct, when solid the have poor conductivity
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Chem: what are the properties of metallic bonding
Conductivity
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Chem: define concentration
Amount of particles in a given volume
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Chem: to increase the rate of reaction for an Exothermic reaction by changing temp what do you do, cool or heat? Why?
Cool, if there is less energy in the surroundings it is easier for the reaction to give out energy.
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Chem: what is a solvent
A liquid in which a solid dissolves
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Chem: what is a solute
Dissolved solid
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Chem: what is a solution
A liquid which contains a dissolved solid
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Chem: what are the 5 ways of separating mixtures
- crystallisation
- filtration
- chromatography
- simple distillation
- fractional distilation
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Chem: explain fractional distillation
A mixture of several substances is separated by distilling the mixture and then evaporating and collecting the individual components using their individual boiling points
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Chem: define distillation
Purifying a liquid by heating and cooling
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Chem: explain simple distillation
It separates 2 liquids with different boiling points, the mixture with the lower boiling point is boiled off and collected
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Chem: explain crystalization
To separate a soluble substance from a solvent, evaporate the solvent to form crystals of the solute
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Chem: explain filtration
Used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid, the mixture is put through a filtration device to collect the liquid and the solid/s
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Chem: explain chromatography
Used to separate mixtures of soluble substances in a solution, paper chromatography this works on the principle that some substances are more soluble
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Chem: what is the equation of concentration (used in titrations)
Concentration = moles / volume
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Chem: define decomposition
The process of breaking down
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Chem: what is thermal decomposition
A compound that breaks down when heated
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Chem: what are the 2 catalysts used in catalytic converters
Palladium and platinum
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chem: what are the properties of the transition metals
- they have high melting and boiling points
- higher dencity
- lower reactivity
- greater strength and hardness
- some of them can be used as catalysts
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chem: what is an acid
it is a substance that forms H+ ions when dissolved in water
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chem: waht is an alkali
it is a substance that forms OH- ions when dissolved in water
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chem: when reacting with other substances what charged ions do metal atoms form
posotive
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chem: what is the reactivity of a metal baced on
its ability to form its posotive ion
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chem: what is an ion
it is an atom or group of them that has any charge
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chem: what is a spectator ion
it is an ion that, in a reaction does not change its charge
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chem: what is the difference between an alkali and a base
a bace is an alkali that is soluable in water
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chem: when lithium reacts with water what happens
fizzes steadily and floats
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chem: when potassium reacts with water what happens
reacts quickly, hydrogen produced is instantly ignited and the metal ignites too, buring with a lilack flame
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chem: when sodium reacts with water what happens
fizzes rapidly and melts, moves around on the waters surface
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chem: why are metals less reactive than carbon extracted from their ore by carbon
the metal is reduced (looses its oxygen). carbon (in the form of coal) is used because it is cheap and abundent
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chem: when acids react with metals what is formed
hydrogen and a salt
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chem: what are the 3
types of base that acids can be neutralised with
- metal carbonates
- metal oxides
- metal hydroxides
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chem: acid + metal oxide ->
salt + water
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chem: acid + metal hydroxide ->
salt + water
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chem: acid + metal carbonate ->
salt + water + carbon dioxide
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chem: what are the 3 ways of detecting the acidity or alkalinity of a substance
- litmus paper
- universal indicator
- PH probe
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chem: what litmus paper is used to determine alkalinity
red litmus paper turns blue
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chem: what litmus paper is used to determine if a substance is acidic
blue litmus paper turns red
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chem: define titration
it is a technique that measures the volumes of acid and alkali solutions needed in a neutralization reaction
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chem: define a strong acid
it is an acid that when in water fully ionises, all of the acid breaks up to form H+ ions
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chem: what is a weak acid
it is an acid that when in water does not fully ionise, most are weak
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chem: what is the equation for fermentation
glucse -> ethanol + carbon dioxide
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chem: what is a limiting reactant and how do you find it
it is the reactant that is completely used up first, the reaction stops when this happens, you find it by finding the reactant with the lowest moles
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chem: if i fill 3 ballons with gas, one with 1 mole methane, one with 1 mole argon and one with 1 mole chlorine, which baloon will be the largest
they will all be the same size because at the same temperature and pressure one mole of any gas will have the same volume.
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chem: for titrations what is the range for concordant results
0.1 cm3
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chem: if a there is 20 cm3 of liquid in my measuring tube and it has an uncertanty of 1 cm3, write lower and upper bounds for the amount of liquid
19.5 < l < 20.5
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chem: Name three factors that make the percentage yield of a reaction less than 100%?
reaction is incomplete
waste products
side reactions
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chem: what makes a chemical cell have more voltage/potential difference
more difference in reactivity will result in more voltage
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chem: what happens to a chemical cell when you change the electrode
changing the electrode will change the reactions that happen at each electrode and so change the voltage
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chem: what makes a chemical cell non - rechargable
irreversable chemical reactions take place at the elctrodes, as soon as the one of the reactants has run out electrisity cannot be produced.
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chem: what makes a chemical cell rechargable
connection to an electric current reverses the reactions that occured to produce electrisity and recharges the cell
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chem: what are fuel cells
they produce electrical energy by reacting a fuel (often hydrogen) with oxygen (e.g. from the air), when this happens a current is produced and a current will continue to be produced unitll the fuel runs out.
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chem: what are the pros of fuel cells
they have high efficiency
they can produce less polution
they are reliable as they have no moving parts
they can be compact
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chem: hydrogen fuel cells vs petrol, which has a higher energy per gram
hydrogen fuel cells
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Chem: if a change of state happens and the temperature increases during the change of state what can we say about the substance
It is impure or a mixture
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Chem: what is Rf in chromatography
It is the retention factor, its equation is distance traveled by dye(compound) / distance traveled by solvent
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Chem: what is chromatography used for
It is used to distinguish between pure and impure substances
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chem: why are small covalent molecules liquids or gasses at room temperature
- when molecules melt or boil it is the intermolecular forces that break
- these intermolecular forces are weak in simple covalent substances
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chem: define alloys
they are combinations of 2 or more elements when one of them is a metal
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chem: what is the difference between metals and alloys
alloys are:
- stronger than metals
- contain other elements
- harder
- the layers in alloys are distorted
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chem: what are the 2 types of conductor
heat - delocalized electrons can carry heat
electrical
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chem: what is an allotrope and what is an example of one
it is a different form or an element
diamond is an allotrope of carbon
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chem: what are the properties of diamond
- they are hard, they have lots of covalent bonds
- covalent bonds, every carbon atom is bonded to 4 others
- diamond has not delocalized electrons that can conduct a charge
- high melting and boiling point, it is very hard to break strong covalent bonds, hence high melting and boiling point
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chem: what are the properties of graphite
- covalent bonds, each carbon atom is bonded to 3 others
- soft, there are layers to graphene that are able to slide over one another
- conductivity, each carbon atom forms 3 bonds, there is a delocalized electron for every carbon atom
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chem: what are the properties of graphene
- conducts, delocalized electron can conduct
- graphene is light but strong because it is one layer thick
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chem: what is a fullerine
they are allotropes of carbon that take hollow structures
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chem: what is a spherical fullerene called
it is called a buckminsterfullerene
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chem: what are some uses of buckminsterfullerenes
they can be used for:
- catalysts
- lubricants
- as vehicles for transporting drugs into our bodies
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chem: what are some properties of cylindrical fullerenes
- strength, strong covalent bonds
- conductivity
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chem: describe cylindrical fullerenes
they are called carbon nanotubes and take the shape of a cylinder, they are often called molecular wires because they have a tiny diameter but are very long
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chem: what are some uses of cylindrical fullerenes
- electronics
- nanotechnology
- for strengthening materials
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chem: what are clumps of particles
matter often 'clump' up into small particles, the size of the clump gives it a different name:
- nanoparticles
- fine particles
- coarse particles
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Chem: why, when tennessine was discovered in 2010, was it not recognised as a new element until 2015
Because the discovery of the element must be repruducable
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Chem. what is the dependent variable
The one that the depends on the other variables
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Chem: how to calculate overall energy change
Energy in bonds of reactants - energy in the bonds of products = overall energy change
Energy in - energy out = overall energy change
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Chem: why do alloys conduct electricity worse than pure metals
Because the different elements in the alloy interrupt the lattice structure and make it harder for the electrons to move through the structure
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Chem: what equation links moles, volume and concentration
Conc = moles / volume
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Chem: explain how, in aluminium, electrons carry a change
- delocalised electrons
- they can carry a charge
- they flow through the substance
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chem: who came up with the plum pudding model, when?
JJ thompson, 1897
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chem: who thought the atom was a nucleus with all of the posotive charge in the center and a cloud of neagtive charge, when
Ernest Rutherford, 1909
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chem: who came up with the idea that electrons were in shells with orbits, when?
Niels Bohr, 1913
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chem: who came up with the idea of protons, when
Rutherford, 1919
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chem: who came up with the idea of neutrons
James Chadwick, 1932
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chem: what are all of the transition elements
they are metals
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chem: what are the properties of the alkali metals
- low dencity
- relativly low melting point
- soft, can be cut with a scalpel
- very reactive
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chem: what is a giant ionic latice
it is an ionic structure with an underined amount of ions
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chem: what are the properties of giant ionic lattices
- each positive ion is surrounded by a negative ion
- they are 3d structures
- very strong forces of attraction between pos and neg ions (**electrostatic forces of attraction**) which hold the ions in place
- very high melting and boiling points
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chem: what are electrostatic forces
they are the forces between posotive and negative ions
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chem: what can ionic compounds do when molten or dissolved, how?
they can conduct electrisity, remember that it is the ions that move not the electrons
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Chem: in diamond, graphite and graphene what are the bonds
covalent
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chem: what is the main property of nanoparticles
very high surface are to volume ratio
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chem: what is the empirical formula
The empirical formula of a compound is the simplest, whole number ratio of atoms of each element in a compound,
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chem: what is an exothermic reaction profile
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chem: what is an endothermic reaction profile
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chem: what is the structure of a hydrogen fuel cell
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chem: what type of equation shows electrons
ionic
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chem: what is the reactivity series
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chem: what is the equation for moles involving Mr
Moles = mass / Mr
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Chem: what are 4 types of Exothermic reactions
- neutralisation
- combustion
- oxidation
- hand warmer
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Chem: what are the 3 types of endothermic reactions
- thermal decomposition
- citric acid + baking soda
- sport injury packs
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Chem: what are the 2 requirements for a reaction to occur
- collisions
- activation energy
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Chem: through bond energy how do you find if a reaction is Exothermic or endothermic
You can subtract the bond energy from products and reactants, if the answer is pos then it is endothermic and if the answer is negative then it is Exothermic
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Chem: how many electrodes are required to create a chemical cell
2
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Chem: what is a battery
It is multiple cells joined in series
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Chem: what are the 2 parts of chemical cells
Electrodes and electrolytes
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Chem: how do you find the voltage of a battery
It is the sum of the voltages of the individual cells
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Chem: what is the reason for a battery not being usable any more
Chemicals in the battery running out
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Chem: what happens to the boiling point of water when it is impure
It is nit 100 degrees and will boil over a range of possible temperatures based on how impure and what the impurities are
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Chem: what is limewater an aqueous solution of
Calcium hydroxide
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Chem: what type of compounds dotransition metals form
Coloured
