C3 Flashcards
What type of reaction is rusting?
A slow reaction
What type of reactions are burning and an explosion?
Fast reactions
What does the rate of reaction measure?
The amount of product made in a specific time
For mass changes, how can the rate of reaction be measured?
g/s or g/min
For volume changes, how can the rate of reaction be measured?
cm³/s, or cm³/min
How can the rate of a reaction be increased?
By rasing the temperature, increasing the concentration (of liquids) or increasing the pressure (of gases)
When do chemical reactions stop?
When one of the reactants is used up
What does the amount of product formed in a reaction depend on?
The amount of reactant used
What is the ‘limiting reactant’ in a chemical reaction?
The one that is used up by the end of the reaction
When there are more reactants, what does this mean?
There are more reactant particles, so more product particles can be made.
What does the ‘limiting reactant’ in a chemical reaction determine?
The maximum amount of product that can be made.
How can you measure the rate of a reaction?
By monitoring the mass of a reaction mixture in a flask on a top pan balance, or measuring the volume of gas produced using a gas syringe
When do chemical reactions take place?
When particles collide with enough energy
What is the relationship between the collision of particles in a reaction and the speed of the reaction?
The more collisions there are between particles, the faster the reaction.
Why does a reaction at a low temperature cause a slow rate of reaction?
Because in a reaction at a low temperature, the particles move slowly. This means that there are less collisions between particles, and they collide with less energy, so there are less successful collisions.
Why does a reaction at a high temperature cause a fast rate of reaction?
Because in a reaction at a high temperature, the particles move fast, meaning that they collide more often and with higher energy. This results in more successful collisions.
What does increasing temperature do to particles in a chemical reaction?
It causes an increase in the particle’s kinetic energy, and so they move a lot faster.
With an increase in temperature, and therefore an increase in particle speed, what happens?
The number of collisions per second increases, and more frequent collisions between particles leads to a faster reaction
When particles collide at an increased temperature, they have more energy. What does this cause?
High energy collisions increase the chance of successful collisions: more energetic collisions lead to more successful collisions.
Why does a reaction where one or both reactants are in low concentrations cause a slow rate of reaction?
The particles will be spread out, and so they will collide less often, resulting in fewer successful collisions
Why does a reaction where one or both reactants are in high concentrations cause a fast rate of reaction?
Increasing concentration increases the number of particles in the same space, so they are all much more crowded together. The more crowded they are, the greater the chance of them colliding. This increases the number of collisions per second, and more frequent collisions leads to a faster reaction.
Why does a gas being under a low pressure cause a slow rate of reaction?
Because the particles are spread out, and so they will collide less often, resulting in fewer successful collisionsre
Why does a gas being under a high pressure cause a fast rate of reaction?
When the pressure is high, the particles are crowded more closely together. The particles collide more often, resulting in much more successful collisions (like high concentration of reactants in a solution).
What is the relationship between the surface area of a reactant and the speed of the reactant?
The larger the surface area of a reactant, the faster the reaction.
Do powdered solids or lumps of solid have a larger surface area compared to their volume, and why?
Powdered solids, because more sides are exposed.
Why do powdered solid reactants cause a faster rate of reaction?
Because there is a greater proportion of particles exposed, meaning that the particles have a greater chance of colliding with other reactant particles.
Why do workers in factories that handle powders have to be very careful?
Because just a spark can cause an explosion
What is an explosion?
A very fast reaction, in which huge volumes of gas are made
What is a catalyst?
A substance that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without being used up or changed at the end of the reaction.
What are catalysts often used for?
Speeding up the rate of a reaction
Why are catalysts very useful materials?
As only a small amount of catalyst is needed to speed up the reaction of large amounts of reactant
Every element in the periodic table has two numbers. What is the larger number?
The relative atomic mass (Ar)
What is the relative formula mass (Mr) of a compound?
The sum of the relative atomic masses of all the atoms present in the formula.
How do you work out the relative formula mass (Mr)?
Write down the formula of the compound, multiply the number of atoms of each element in the formula by its relative atomic mass (Ar), then add them all up
What is always the relationship between the total mass of the reactants and the total mass of the products?
The total mass of the reactants is always equal to the total mass of the products.
Why is the total mass of the reactants is always equal to the total mass of the products?
Because no atoms are created or destroyed in a chemical reaction
What is the mass of the product directly proportional to?
The mass of the reactant.
Sometimes, we are given the starting mass of only one reactant, and the mass of the final product. How do we work out the other reactant’s mass?
Minus the given reactant mass from the final product’s mass.
What is percentage yield?
A way of comparing the amount of product that is made (actual yield) to the product amount that was expected to be made (predicted yield)
What is the formula to calculate percentage yield?
percentage yield= (actual yield/predicted yield) x 100