C1 Atoms (Part 1) Flashcards

Atoms, elements, compounds, mixture, separating mixtures

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What is an atom?

A

An atom is the smallest part of an element that can exist

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What is an element?

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An element is a substance of only one type of atom.

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3
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How are the elements listed and approximately how many are there?

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They are listed in the periodic table; there are approximately 100.

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4
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Elements can be classified into two groups based on their properties
What are these groups?

A

Metals and non-metals

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5
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Elements may combine through chemical reactions to form new products
What are these new substances called?

A

Compounds

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6
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What is a compound?

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Two or more elements combined chemically in fixed proportions which can be represented by formulae

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7
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Do compounds have the
same properties as their
constituent elements?

A

No, they have different properties.

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8
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What is a mixture? Does it have the
same chemical properties as its
constituent materials?

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A mixture consists of two or more elements or compounds not chemically
combined together; it does have the same chemical properties

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9
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What are the methods through
which mixtures can be separated
(there are five)? Do these involve
chemical reactions?

A

Filtration, crystallisation, simple distillation, fractional distillation and
chromatography; they do not involve chemical reactions

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10
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Describe and explain simple

distillation.

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Simple distillation is used to separate liquid from a solution – the liquid
boils off and condenses in the condenser. The thermometer will read the
boiling point of the pure liquid. Contrary to evaporation, we get to keep the
liquid.

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11
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Describe and explain

crystallisation/evaporation.

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Evaporation is a technique for the separation of a solid dissolved in a solvent from a solvent (e.g. salt from H2O).
The solution is heated until all the solvent evaporates; the solids stay in the vessel.

Crystallisation is similar, but we only remove some of the solvent by evaporation to form a saturated solution (the one where no more solid can be dissolved). Then, we cool down the solution. As we do it, the solid starts to crystallise, as it becomes less soluble at lower temperatures. The crystals can be collected and separated from the solvent via filtration.

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12
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Describe and explain

fractional distillation

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Fractional distillation is a technique for separation of a mixture of liquids.
It works when liquids have different boiling points.
The apparatus is similar to the one of simple distillation apparatus, with the
additional fractionating column placed on top of the heated flask.
The fractionating column contains glass beads. It helps to separate the compounds.
In industry, mixtures are repeatedly condensed and vapourised. The column is hot at the bottom and cold at the top. The liquids will condense at different heights of the column.

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13
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Describe and explain

filtration

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Filtration is used to separate an insoluble solid is suspended in a liquid.
The insoluble solid (called a residue) gets caught in the filter paper,
because the particles are too big to fit through the holes in the paper.
The filtrate is the substance that comes through the filter paper.
Apparatus: filter paper + funnel.

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14
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Describe and explain

chromatography

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Chromatography is used to separate a mixture of substances dissolved in a solvent.
In paper chromatography, we place a piece of paper with a spot containing a mixture
in a beaker with some solvent. The bottom of the paper has to be in contact with
the solvent. The solvent level will slowly start to rise, thus separating the spot
(mixture) into few spots (components).

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15
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What is a separating funnel?

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A separatory funnel is an apparatus for separating immiscible liquids.
Two immiscible liquids of different densities will form two distinct layers in
the separatory funnel.
We can run off the bottom layer (the liquid with greater density) to a
separate vessel.

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