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Chapter 18 Flashcards

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1
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How are reaction rates measured?

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Observing the changes in the quantities of reactants/products over time

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rate =

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quantity reacted or produced/time

change in concentration/change in time

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What units is concentration measured in?

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mol dm-3

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What do square brackets represent?

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Concentration

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What does [A] mean?

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Concentration of A

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What units does [A] have?

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mol dm⁻³

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7
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What does changing concentration change?

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Rate of a reaction

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8
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What is rate of reaction proportional to?

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The concentration of a particular reactant raised to a power

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rate ∝

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[A]ⁿ

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What is n in rate ∝ [A]ⁿ?

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Order of reaction

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What are some of the common orders?

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1) zero order (0)
2) first order (1)
3) second order (2)

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What is zero order?

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1) concentration of a reactant has no effect on the rate

2) rate ∝ [A]⁰

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What is first order?

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1) rate depends on concentration raised to the power of 1

2) rate ∝ [A]¹

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What is second order?

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1) rate depends on concentration raised to the power of 2

2) rate ∝ [A]²

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What is the rate equation?

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The mathematical relationship between the concentrations of the reactants and the reaction rate.

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What is the rate constant, k?

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1) proportionality constant

2) converts between the rate of reaction and concentration and orders

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overall order =

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sum of orders with respect to each reactant

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What is the overall order for the rate equation rate = k[A]ᵐ[B]ⁿ

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m+n

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What does ∝ mean?

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proportional to

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20
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Simplify the rate equation rate = k[A]⁰[B]¹[C]²

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rate = k[B][C]²

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What do the units of the rate constant depend on?

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The number of concentration terms in the rate equation

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22
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How can you determine the units of the rate constant, k?

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1) rearrange equation to make k the subject
2) substitute units into the expression for k
3) cancel common units and show the final units on a single line

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How are orders of reaction determined?

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Experimentally by monitoring how a physical quantity changes over time

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What is continuous monitoring?

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Plotting graphs from continuous measurements taken during the course of a reaction

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25
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Give some methods of continuous monitoring that produce a gas as one of the products?

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1) monitoring by gas collection

2) monitoring by mass loss

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26
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What can be used to estimate a colour change?

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A colorimeter

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27
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What is the gradient of a concentration-time graph?

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Rate of reaction

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What is the shape of a zero order concentration-time graph?

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1) straight line

2) negative gradient

29
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Does the reaction rate of a zero order reaction ever change?

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No

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What is the shape of a first order concentration-time graph?

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1) downward curve

2) decreasing gradient

31
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What is constant in a first order reaction?

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1) half-life

3) the time for the concentration to halve

32
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What is the shape of a second order concentration-time graph?

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1) downward curve

2) decreasing gradient

33
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What is half life?

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The time taken for half of a reactant to be used up

34
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What is exponential decay?

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The concentration of a first order reaction halving every half life

35
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How can you determine k for a first order reaction?

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1) from the rate

2) from the half-life

36
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What is the formula to calculate the rate constant from the half-life?

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k = ln2 / t₁/₂

37
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Why is it more accurate to use the formula for calculating the rate constant than drawing a tangent?

A

It is always difficult to judge how steep the tangent should be drawn.

38
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What is the shape of a zero order rate-concentration graph?

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1) horizontal straight-line

2) zero gradient

39
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What is the rate equation for a zero order reaction?

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rate = k[A]⁰
rate = k
40
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What is the shape of a first order rate-concentration graph?

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1) straight line graph through the origin

2) positive gradient

41
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What is the rate equation for a first order reaction?

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rate = k[A]¹
rate = k[A]
42
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What is the shape of a second order rate-concentration graph?

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1) upward curve

2) increasing gradient

43
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What is the rate equation for a second order reaction?

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rate = k[A]²

44
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Why can you not directly obtain the rate constant of a second order rate-concentration graph?

A

The rate-concentration graph is a curve

45
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How do you calculate the rate constant of a second order reaction?

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By calculating the gradient of a graph of the rate against the concentration squared

46
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What is the initial rate?

A

The instantaneous rate at the start of a reaction when the time t = 0

47
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How can initial rate be found?

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By measuring the gradient of a tangent drawn at t = 0 on a concentration-time graph

48
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What is a clock reaction?

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1) takes a single measurement

2) time t from the star of an experiment is measured for a visual change to be observed, often a colour or precipitate

49
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What is the initial rate of a clock reaction?

A

initial rate ∝ 1/t

50
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How is a clock reaction repeated?

A

With different concentrations

51
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What colour is aqueous iodine?

A

Orange-brown

52
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What happens when starch is added to iodine

A

It forms a complex with iodine which is an intense dark blue-black colour

53
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Describe how the order of a reaction can be determined from the shape of a rate-concentration graph.

A

1) 0 order is a horizontal line
2) 1st order is a straight line. starting at the origin
3) 2nd order is an upward curve, starting at the origin

54
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What does a colorimeter measure?

A

1) the intensity of light passing through a sample

2) absorbance (directly linked to the concentration of the solution)

55
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How is the filter for a colorimeter chosen?

A

So that it is the complimentary colour to the colour being absorbed in the reaction

56
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When can a reaction only take place?

A

When particles collide

57
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What is a reaction mechanism?

A

The series of steps that make up an overall reaction

58
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What is the rate-determining step?

A

The slowest step in the sequence

59
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What does the rate equation only include?

A

Reacting species involved in the rate determining step

60
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What do the orders in the rate equation match?

A

The number of species involved in the rate-determining step

61
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What are haloalkanes hydrolysed by?

A

Hot aqueous alkali

62
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What happens as temperature increases?

A

1) rate increases

2) value of the rate constant k increases

63
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Increasing temperature shifts the Boltzmann distribution to what side?

A

Right, increasing the proportion of particles that exceed the activation energy Eₐ

64
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What is the Arrhenius equation?

A

1) an exponential relationship between the rate constant k and temperature T
2) k - Ae⁻ᴱᵃ/ᴿᵀ

65
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What is A in the Arrhenius equation?

A

Pre-exponential factor (frequency factor)

66
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What is -Eₐ/RT in the Arrhenius equation?

A

Exponential factor (linked to activation energy and temperature)

67
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What is R in the Arrhenius equation?

A

Gas constant - 8.314Jmol⁻¹K⁻¹

68
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What is T in the Arrhenius equation?

A

Temperature in Kelvin

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