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Designing chemical processes to maximize profit, minimize environmental impact, and ensure safety and efficiency.

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Industrial Process Design

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Factors include availability, sustainability, and cost of feedstocks; opportunities for recycling; energy requirements; marketability of by-products; and product yield.

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Factors Influencing Industrial Process Design

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Environmental Considerations in Industrial ProcessesInclude minimizing waste, avoiding the use or production of toxic substances, and designing biodegradable products.

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Environmental Considerations in Industrial Processes

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Representations of chemical reactions using symbols and formulas to show reactants and products, including their states.

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Chemical Equations

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The amount of substance containing the same number of entities as there are in 12 grams of carbon-12.

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Mole

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The mass of one mole of a substance, calculated using the sum of the atomic masses of its constituent atoms.

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Gram Formula Mass (GFM)

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The volume occupied by one mole of a gas at a specific temperature and pressure, typically 22.4 L at STP (Standard Temperature and Pressure).

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Molar Volume

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A measure of the efficiency of a reaction, calculated by dividing the actual yield by the theoretical yield and multiplying by 100.

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Percentage Yield

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A measure of the efficiency of a chemical reaction in terms of the amount of starting materials that become useful products.

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Atom Economy

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The reactant that is completely consumed in a reaction, thus determining the maximum amount of product that can be formed.

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Limiting Reactant

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A reactant that remains after a chemical reaction has stopped due to the limiting reactant being completely used up.

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Excess Reactant

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The maximum amount of product that could be formed from given amounts of reactants, calculated based on the balanced chemical equation.

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Theoretical Yield

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The amount of product actually obtained from a reaction, often less than the theoretical yield due to inefficiencies.

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Actual Yield

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Explains how chemical reactions occur and why reaction rates differ, based on the frequency and energy of colliding particles.

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Collision Theory

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Factors include concentration, pressure, surface area (particle size), temperature, and collision geometry

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Factors Affecting Reaction Rate

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A graph that shows the energy changes during a chemical reaction, with reactants, products, and the activation energy.

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Potential Energy Diagram

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The heat change associated with a chemical reaction, negative for exothermic reactions and positive for endothermic reactions.

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Enthalpy Change (ΔH)

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The minimum energy required for reactants to collide and form an activated complex, leading to a chemical reaction.

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activation energy

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A transient, unstable arrangement of atoms formed at the peak of the activation energy barrier during a chemical reaction.

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Activated Complex

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A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed, by lowering the activation energy.

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Catalyst

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Temperature and Kinetic EnergyTemperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance, influencing reaction rates.

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Temperature and Kinetic Energy

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A graph that shows the distribution of kinetic energy among molecules in a sample at a given temperature.

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Energy Distribution Diagram

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A measure of the total energy of a system, including internal energy and the energy required to displace its environment.

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Enthalpy

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A reaction that releases heat to the surroundings, resulting in a negative enthalpy change (ΔH).

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Exothermic Reaction

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A reaction that absorbs heat from the surroundings, resulting in a positive enthalpy change (ΔH).

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Endothermic Reaction

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The energy transferred due to a temperature difference, calculated using Eh = cmΔT.

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Heat Energy (Eh)

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The enthalpy change when one mole of a substance burns completely in oxygen.

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Enthalpy of Combustion

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States that the enthalpy change for a chemical reaction is the same, regardless of the route taken.

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Hess’s Law

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The energy required to break one mole of bonds in a gaseous molecule; mean bond enthalpy is an average over several compounds.

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Bond Enthalpy

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A state in a closed system where the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal, and concentrations of reactants and products remain constant.

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Dynamic Equilibrium

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A reaction that can proceed in both forward and reverse directions under certain conditions.

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Reversible Reaction

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A technique used to separate and identify components in a mixture based on differences in polarity or molecular size.

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Chromatography

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The time taken for a component to travel through the chromatography apparatus to the detector.

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Retention Time

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A quantitative analysis method involving the measurement of the volume of a solution required to react with a known quantity of a substance.

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Volumetric Analysis

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A technique where a solution of known concentration is used to determine the concentration of an unknown solution.

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Titration

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Titre volumes that are within 0.2 cm³ of each other, indicating consistent results in titration.

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Concordant Titres

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A solution of known concentration used in titrations.

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Standard Solution

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A titration based on a redox reaction, often involving permanganate or dichromate as an oxidizing agent.

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Redox Titration

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A substance that changes color at the endpoint of a titration, indicating the completion of the reaction.

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Indicator

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