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What is a combustion reaction?

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Is a particular type of a chemical reaction of hydrogen with oxygen

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What is a chemical equation?

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A representation of a chemical reaction

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What are reactants?

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The substances in the left side of the equation

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What are products?

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The substances on the right side are called products

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How do you write a chemical equation?

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  1. Produce a skeletal equation
  2. Balance atoms in more complex substances first
  3. Balance free elements
  4. Check the balance of all atoms
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Wha is a solution?

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A homogeneous mixture of two substances such as salt and water

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What is a solvent?

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The major component of a solution, usually the liquid part

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What is a solute?

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The minority of a solution, most likely the solid part of the solution

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What is a solute solvent interaction?

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When a solid is put into a solvent, the interactions between solvent and solute particles compete with the interactions among the solute particles themselves

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What are electrolytes?

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Substances that dissolve in water to form solutions that conduct electricity are electrolytes

A salt solution will conduct electricity (NaCl)

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What are strong electrolytes?

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Substances such as sodium chloride that completely dissociate into ions when they dissolve in water are strong electrolytes

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Ionic compounds form what?

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Ionic compounds dissociate in water and can conduct electricity so they form electrolytes in water

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What are non-electrolytes?

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Compounds such as aura that do not dissociate into ions when dissolved in water are nonelextrolytes and the resulting solutions (non electrolyte solutions) do not conduct electricity

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Acids are what?

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Acids are molecular compounds but they do ionize and form ions when they dissolve in water

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What is a strong acid?

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An acid that completely ionizes in solutions

Since they completely ionize, they are strong electrolytes

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What is a weak acid?

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Acids that do not completely ionize in water
Composed mostly of the nonionized form of the acid molecules
ie.) acetic acid

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What are weak electrolytes?

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Weak acids are classified as weak electrolytes and the resulting solution (weak electrolyte solutions) conduct electricity only weakly

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What does soluble mean?

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A compound that dissolves in water

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What does insoluble mean?

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A compound that does not dissolve in water

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What is a chemical reaction?

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A process in which one or more substances are converted into one or more different ones

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what are the general solubility rules for ionic compounds in water?

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  1. All salts containing cations of group 1 metals (alkali metals, Li+ , Na+ , K+ , etc.) and ammonium ions (NH4 ) are soluble.
  2. All nitrates (NO3–) , ethanoates (acetates, CH3COO– ), chlorates (ClO3–), and perclorates (ClO4–) are soluble.
  3. Salts containing Ag+ , Pb2+, and Hg22+ are insoluble
  4. Most chlorides (Cl–) , bromides (Br–) , and iodides (I–) are soluble.
  5. Sulfates (SO42–) are soluble, except those containing Ca2+ , Sr2+ , Ba2+
  6. Carbonates (CO32–) , hydroxides (OH–), oxides (O2–) , phosphates (PO43–) , and sulfides (S2–) are generally insoluble
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what is a precipitate reaction?

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ones in which a solid or a precipitate forms

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what is a precipitate?

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a solid, an insoluble ionic compound that forms, separate from the solution

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what is a molecular equation?

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an equation showing the complete neutral formula for each compound in a reaction

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what is a complete ionic equation?
an equation which lists individually all of the ions present as either reactants or products in a chemical reaction
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what are spectator ions?
ions in a complete ionic equation that do not participate in the reaction and therefore remain in the solution
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what is a net ionic equation?
an equation that shows only the species that change during the reaction
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what is an acid-base reaction (neutralization reaction)?
a reaction in which an acid and a base react, neutralizing each other, producing water and a salt
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what is the Arrhenius definition of an acid?
substances that produce H+ ions in an aqueous solution H+ is a bare proton, bare protons associate with water molecules to form hydronium ions
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what is the Arrhenius definition of a base?
substances that produce OH- ions in an aqueous solution
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what are hydronium ions?
the ion formed from the association of a water molecule with an H+ ion donated by an acid
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what is a polyprotic acid?
an acid that contains more than one ionizable proton and releases them sequentially
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what is a diprotic acid?
an acid that contains two ionizable protons
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what is a gas-evolution reaction?
a reaction in which two aqueous solutions are mixed and a gas forms, resulting in bubbling
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what is an oxidation-reduction reaction (redox reaction)?
reactions in which electrons are transferred from one reactant to another and the oxidation states of certain atoms are charged
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what does oxidation mean?
the loss of one or more electrons; also the gaining of oxygen or the loss of hydrogen
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what does reduction mean?
the gaining of one or more electrons; also the gaining of hydrogen or the loss of oxygen
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what is an oxidation state?
a positive or negative, whole number that represents the "change" an atom in a compound would have if all all shared electrons were assigned to the atom with a greater attraction for those electrons
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what are the rules for assigning oxidation states?
1. The oxidation state of each atom in an element is 0. 2. The oxidation state of the atom in a monoatomic ion is equal to the ion’s charge. 3. The sum of the oxidation states of all atoms in: A neutral molecule is always zero, a polyatomic ion is always equal to the charge of the ion 4. In their compounds, metals have positive oxidation states: Group 1 metals always have an oxidation state of + 1, Group 2 metals always have an oxidation state of + 2 5. The oxidation state of hydrogen in a compound is usually + 1 6. Nonmetals are assigned oxidation states according to the table on the next slide. Entries at top of table take precedence over those lower down
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what are the rules for assigning oxidations states to nonmetals?
a) Fluorine always has an oxidation state of - 1 b)The other group 17 elements usually have an oxidation state of - 1 c) Oxygen usually has an oxidation state of -2 d) The other group 16 elements usually have an oxidation state of - 2 e) Group 15 elements usually have an oxidation number of - 3
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what is an oxidizing agent?
a substance that causes the oxidation of another substance | an oxidizing agent gains electrons and is reduced
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what is a reducing agent?
a substance that cause the reduction of another substance | a reducing agent losses electrons and is oxidized
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what is stoichiometry?
The numerical relationships between reactants and products in a balanced chemical equation
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what is a limiting reactant?
the reactants that has the smallest stoichiometric amount in a reactant mixture and consequently limits the amount of product in a chemical reaction
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what is a theoretical yield?
The greatest possible amount of product that can be made in a chemical reaction based on the amount of the limiting reactant
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what is the formula for percent yield?
% yield = actual yield/ theoretical yield x 100%
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what is molarity?
A means of expressing solution concentration as the number of moles of solute per litre of solution
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what are stock solutions?
a highly concentrated form of a solution used in laboratories to make less concentrated solutions via dilution
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what are concentrate solutions?
a solution that contains a large amount of solute relative to the amount of solvent
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what is a diluted solution?
a solution that contains a very small amount of solute relative to the amount of solvent M1V1 = M2V2

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