Chemical analysis Flashcards
What is a pure substance?
Something that has nothing added to it, natural state or compound
What happens when boiling a pure mixture?
Pure mixtures have a specific boiling point
Impurities lower the melting point and increase the melting range and boiling points
What is a formulation?
Mixture with an exact amount of components
Made by a ‘recipe’
What is the mobile phase in paper chromatography?
Where molecules can move, the liquid or gas
What is the stationary phase in paper chromatography?
Where molecules can’t move, the solid so paper
What happens to the molecules in paper chromatography?
The molecules constantly switch between the stationary and mobile phase
Chemicals that spend more time in the mobile phase move further
What is the Rf value?
How soluble a substance is
Distance moved by solvent (dot)
What is the test for chlorine gas?
Damp blue litmus paper bleaches red quickly then white
Goes red as chlorine is acidic
What is the test for oxygen?
A glowing splint will relight
What is the test for carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide turns limewater cloudy
Whats the test for Hydrogen?
A lit splint will make a pop
Pops as water is formed
What is an anion?
A negatively charged ion
( Think the opposite to PANIC )
The ‘an’ in ANION means un so unpositive or negative
What is a Cation?
A positively charged ion
( Think opposite to PANIC )
The t in CATION looks like a +
CATions are PAWsitive
Examples of Anions
Carbonates
Sulfates
Halides
Examples of Cation:
Lithium Sodium Potassium Calcium Copper