CHM104 - Chemistry for Life Sciences Flashcards
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What is Chemistry?
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Chemistry is a field of science dealing with how matter & energy interact with each other.
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What are the phases of matter?
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- Solid phase/state
- Liquid phase/state
- Gaseous phase/state
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What is the key characteristic of a Liquid phase?
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It has an indefinite shape but fixed volume.
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What is the key characteristic of a Solid-phase?
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It has a fixed shape & volume.
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What is the key characteristic of the Gaseous phase?
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It has no fixed shape & volume.
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What are the types of mixtures?
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- Homogenous mixtures & non-homogenous mixtures
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What are Homogenous mixtures/Solutions?
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Homogenous mixtures or solutions are mixtures which are uniformly mixed. Example: Sea water.
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What are Heterogenous mixtures?
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These are the mixtures which are non-uniformly mixed. Example most rocks like Granite (Having Feldspar, quartz & mica).
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What are the methods of separation of mixtures?
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- Distillation
- Filtration
- Mass Spectrometry
- Chromatography
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What is Mass spectrometry?
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It is a method of separation of mixtures by the atomic mass.
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Quantity, what is it?
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It means you can assess the measurable value of a measurement.
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What is the Metric system based on?
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It’s a system based on decimal points.
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What is Acetone (CH3COCH3) used for?
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Acetone is an organic compound used to dissolve other solvents.
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Instruments to measure Length?
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The Metre Rule is used to measure the Length & the standard unit is in Metres (m).
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Conversion of Millilitres to Cm3, please?
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1mL = 1cm3
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What are the instruments to measure Volume?
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- Pipette
- Burette
- Graduated cylinder
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What is Mass?
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Is the amount of matter in an object
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What is weight?
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It’s the gravitational force acting on an object
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What do we use to Reset the weight of the weighing container on a weighing balance?
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The Tare button.
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What is the mechanism of Heat flow?
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Heat flow is such that it flows from an object with high temperature to an object with low temperature.
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Formulae for conversion of Temperature from degrees centigrade to Fahrenheit:
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Tf = (1.8)Tc + 32
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Formulae for conversion of Temperature from degrees Fahrenheit to degrees centigrade:
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(Tf - 32) / 1.8 = Tc
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Your decimal points in your answers should..?:
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Match the decimals you were given in your question. (For addition or subtraction problem)
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What does Intravenously means?
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The drug delivery method in the body through the veins
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Significant figures & calculations:
Take the value with less significant figures from the data given & assign the same to your final answer. Especially in division or multiplication.
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What is Matter?
Matter is anything that occupies space and it has mass.
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What is an alloy?
An alloy is a solid mixture of two or more substances making a same composition throughout.
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What is the difference between an element & a compound?
An element is a pure substance which is made up of one kind of atom,
WHILE:
A Compound is a pure substance which is made of of more than one kind of atom.
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What is a solution?
A solution is a mixture with the same composition throughout.
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How many elements are there so far? And which ones occur naturally?
There are 118 known elements so far, of which 91 occur naturally.
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Mercury in Latin please (Teaser):
Hg (Hydrargyrum)
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Key distinguisher between Compounds & Mixtures:
Compounds have fixed compositions in the same percentages by mass.
While Mixtures have varying compositions.
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What are the tools to measure volume?
Measuring Cylinder, Pipette & Burette.
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What are pure substances?
They are either elements or compounds
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What's an element?
A type of matter which can't be broken down into two or more pure substances.
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What's a chemical symbol?
A chemical symbol is the chemical representation of a chemical substance in form of letters. Mostly, 1 or 2 letters.
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What's a compound?
A pure substance is made up of more than one element. e.g Water is a compound made of Hydrogen & Oxygen.
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What is the comment on Compounds & their compositions?
Compounds have a fixed composition (Same elements in the same percentage by mass)
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Are elements & compounds' characteristics the same?
No. Usually, the elements & compounds characteristics are different. E.g Na, Cl & NaCl
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What are some ways to split compounds?
- Electrolysis
- Heating
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What is a mixture?
A mixture comprises of 2 or more substances combined in a way that the substance retain their chemical identity.
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What comprises a solution?
A solution comprises of a SOLVENT & SOLUTE. Solvent is usually in the largest amount.
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In a Solution, what can Solute be?
It can be a liquid, solid or gas.
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What is an example of a Solid solution?
Brass - It's made up of Copper & Zinc.
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What is distillation?
Is a method of separating homogenous solid-liquid mixtures by vaporization & condensation of the liquid, leaving behind the residue solute.
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What is filtration?
A method to separate heterogeneous mixtures by using a barrier with fine pores like filter paper.
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What is chromatography?
It's a method of separation of a mixture by the use of solubility or extent of adsorption on a solid surface.
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What is a Metric system?
Is a measurement system where the units are measured in the powers of ten.
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What is temperature?
Temperature is a factor that determines the direction of heat flow.
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What are Celsius?
A unit of temperature with a 100 degrees range based on the the freezing & boiling points of water.
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What causes the degree of uncertainty in measurements?
The Nature of the instrument & The skill of the operator.
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What is a conversion factor?
A ratio, numerically equal to 1 by which a quantity can be converted from one unit to another.
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What's another name for the Conversion factor?
Dimensional analysis
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What are Bridge conversions?
They are conversion ratios allowing you to transfer from the English metric system to the Metric system.
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What does pulvarize mean?
Making into powder (powderize), by breaking up or making into dust.
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What are Intensive properties?
They are the properties that Identify a substance. They are independent of the amount.
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What are Extensive properties?
They are the properties that are dependent on the amount.
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What other properties (apart from the intensive & extensive) that we can use to identify chemical substances?
- Chemical properties
- Physical properties
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What are Chemical properties?
They are the properties observed as a substance takes part in a chemical reaction. e.g Inertdness of Helium, reactiveness of hydrogen.
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What are Physical properties?
They are the properties which are observed without even changing the Identity of the chemical substance. e.g: Boiling point & melting point.
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What's the melting point?
The temperature at which the substances change from solid to liquid.
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What's the boiling point?
The temperature at which the substance changes from liquid to gaseous state.
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What is density?
Density of a substance is the ratio of mass to volume
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How is the volume of irregular solids obtained?
By displacement method of a liquid.
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How is the MASS of regular solids obtained?
By direct weighing.
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What is Solubility?
is the process by which the Solute dissolves in a solvent.
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What type of change is Solubility?
A Physical change/
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What's the chemical formula for Sucrose?
C12H22O11
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What is a Saturated solution?
A solution in equilibrium with undissolved solute.
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What is an Unsaturated solution?
A solution containing less solute than the equilibrium.
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What is a Supersaturated solution?
A solution containing more solute than the amount allowed at equilibrium.
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What can Potassium permanganate be used as?
As an antiseptic (Cleaner) to infections
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What are cations?
These are positively charged ions
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What are anions?
These are negatively charged ions
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Why do things colorate? e.g fruits when left in air etc..
Due to oxidation
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What can you comment on temperature & oxidation?
Lowering temperature decreases the rate of oxidation.
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Denote these:
- Atomic number
- Mass number
Atomic number = Z
Mass Number = A
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What is Atomic number?
Atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
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What is Mass number?
The mass number is the summation of the number of protons & number of neutrons in a nucleus of an atom.
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What are Isotopes?
These are atoms with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons. Example: C-12 & C-14.
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What techniques can we use to reduce the rate of Oxidation?
- Refrigeration
- Placing an item in water
- Adding vinegar
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What is the use of these Chemicals?
- Potassium permanganate
- Antimony
- Glycerol
These are their uses respectively:
- Potassium permanganate - as an antiseptic in cleaning infections & wounds.
- Antinmony - It is used to detect leakage in oil pipes
- Glycerol - It is used to sweeten drinks & as a food thickener.
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What's the remedy for people who can't sleep?
A glass of lukewarm milk
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Which metal can melt at room temperature?
Gallium
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What is the use of Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) for everyday home use?
To absorb odor.
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What are Dalton's atomic theory principles?
- An element is comprised of tiny particles called atoms
- Atoms of a given element have the same chemical properties (atoms of diff...visa versa)
- In a chemical reaction, atoms move from one substance to another, atoms never disappears or changed into an atom of another element
- Compounds are formed when atoms of 2 or more elements are combined (And the relative numbers of each atoms are constant & definite)
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What is an atom?
It's the smallest part of an element that retains the chemical properties of that element.
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How did the first discoveries of subatomic particles come by?
It were the Electrons which were discovered by passing electricity to gases at low pressure.
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What are electrons?
They are the negatively charged sub-atomic particles which are found outside the nucleus.
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What is the unit charge of an electron?
-1
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What is the experiment by J.J Thomson that shows that the electrons are negatively charged & are present?
Passing a Cathode Ray in a cathode tube toward a Zinc Sulfide screen will deflect the ray to the positive plate showing that the electrons are negatively charged.
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About atoms reacting, what LAW did J.J Dalton Atomic theory cover?
Law of conservation of mass
Law of Constant composition
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State the Law of Constant composition:
Compounds always contain the same elements with the same proportions by mass.
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About atoms reacting, what LAW did J.J Dalton Atomic theory cover?
Law of conservation of mass
Law of Constant Composition
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State the Law of conservation of Mass:
In a normal reaction, there is no detectable change in mass in an ordinary atom.
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State the law of multiple proportions, & where does it apply to?
"The masses of one element that combine with a fixed mass of a second element are in a fixed ratio of small numbers"
- It applies when 2 atoms form more than one compound.
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Who proposed the first model that electrons are embedded in a positive charge cloud sphere in an atom?
J.J Thomson
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What are Alfa particles?
They are helium atoms without their electrons
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What's the nucleus?
It;s the small densely positively charged part at the centre of an atom
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Who made the experiments of the atom in discovering that the nucleus is positively charged?
Ernest Rutherford as the alfa particles were deflected by the nucleus of an atom.
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What's the charge of a proton?
+1, and is equal to that mass of a Hydrogen atom.
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What's the Neutron?
It's the uncharged particle of the nucleus of an atom with a mass slightly greater than that of a proton.
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Why is the mass of an atom concentrated at the nucleus?
because the proton & the neutron are there. They are heavier in mass than the electron
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What is the atomic number (Z)
It's the number of protons in an atom
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What is the mass number (A)
It's the total number of protons & neutrons in a nucleus of an atom.
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What's an Isotope?
An atom with the same number of protons but different neutrons. Example: Hydrogen (Light hydrogen = 0 Neutrons, Deuterium = 1 neutron & Tritium = 2 neutrons)
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What does a nuclear symbol show us?
It shows a composition of the nucleus of an atom.
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Why do we call it the "Relative mass"?
because actual atoms are hard to measure by a balance on themselves, so we use a scale in relation to the mass of Carbon-12 atom.
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What is atomic mass/atomic weight?
It's the AVERAGE mass of an atom measured RELATIVE to that of another element, using the Carbon-12 scale.
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What is the Carbon-12 scale?
An atomic mass scale where the mass of Carbon is assigned 12 amu exactly.
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How are the relative masses of atoms determined?
By using a Mass Spectrometer
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Why do we have to determine the Isotopic abundances of elements?
Because mostly elements don't just occur as single isotopes, rather more than 1 isotope.
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What is the Avogadros Number?
It's the number of units in a Mole
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What does the Avogadros Number represent?
It represents the number of atoms in an element whose mass in grams is numerically equal to the element's atomic mass.
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What are Periods?
They are horizontal rows in the Periodic table
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What are groups?
They are the Vertical columns in the periodic table
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What are the main group elements?
They are the elements of group 1,2 and 13 to 18.
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What are the Transitional elements?
They are the elements which fall between groups 3 to 12. And period 4 to 6.
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What are post-transitional elements?
They are the elements in groups 13 to 15.
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What are alkali metals?
They are the elements in Group 1 of the periodic table.
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What are alkaline earth metals?
They are elements in group 2
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What are Halogens?
They are the elements in Group 17
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What are Noble gases?
They are the elements in Group 18
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What can you comment on the elements being in the same group?
They usually have the same chemical properties.
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What's the formal definition of a periodic table?
It's a table showing the arrangement of elements in an increasing atomic number, in such a way that the elements of the same chemical properties fall in the same group.
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What are metals?
Substances with characters of malleability, luster, & high electrical conductivity.
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What are metalloids?
They are elements which have characters of both metals & non-metals.
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What elements do exist alone mostly?
Inert gases
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What does the combination of elements create?
Molecules & ions
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What are molecules?
A combination of atoms combined covalent to form compounds.
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What forces hold the molecules?
Covalent forces
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What's a molecular formula?
A chemical formula showing the number of atoms in each element, discretely. The number of atoms are written as subscript below each chemical symbol.
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What's structural formula?
A chemical formula showing structure of bonded atoms in a molecule.
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What is a condensed structural formula?
It's the chemical formula showing the functional group of that chemical. e.g CH3C00H - Acetic acid
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What are ions?
They are the charged atoms when the atom looses or gains electrons
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What kind of bond holds the Polyatomic ions?
Covalent bonds
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What's an ionic compound?
A compound formed by both Cations & Anions. e.g NaCl
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What are ionic bonds?
Strong electrostatic forces holding together cations & anions in an ionic bond.
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Why do Ionic compounds have high melting points?
Because the energy required to separate the cations in these ionic bonds is very huge
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Why can we call NaCl an electrolyte, when we call Sugar a Non-electrolyte?
Because once in the water, the Solution of NaCl conducts electricity while that of Sugar doesn't.
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What is the principle of Electric Neutrality?
It states that in any compound, the total positive charge must equal to the total negative charge
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Why are noble gases unreactive?
Because they are so Stable.
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Which metals do not follow the noble gases stability structure?
The Transitional & post-transitional metals
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What are the common polyatomic cations?
NH4+ (Ammonium) & Hg2+ (Mercury I)
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What's the rule for naming monoatomic cations?
By taking the name of the metal. And the anion has an -ide suffix.
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How are the names of the Transition Metals like?
They must have roman numeral to indicate specifically which of them is bein talked about
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What are binary molecular compounds?
They are compounds formed by 2 non-metals
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What are acids?
They are binary molecular compounds having hydrogen which ionize in water to release H+ ions.
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Are acids called so when in gaseous form?
No, only when they are in Water.
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Oxoacids what are they?
They are acids with oxygen in addition to Hydrogen atoms.
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What are oxoanions?
Are polyatomic ions composed of an element, typically a nonmetal, bonded to one or more oxygen atoms. E.g NO3 (Nitrate)
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What are isobars?
Are the nuclei with the same mass number but different atomic numbers.
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What are Quantum numbers?
They are numbers used to describe the ENERGY LEVELS available to ELECTRONS in atoms.
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What are the WAVE FUNCTIONS of Certain QUANTUM NUMBERS associated with?
An electron
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What can the expression of the WAVE FUNCTION in these electrons help us know?
- The ENERGY of the orbital
- The SHAPE of the orbital
- The ORIENTATION in space of the orbital
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How many QUANTUM NUMBERS does an Electron have?
4 of them. (n, l, ml & ms)
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What is the FIRST QUANTUM NUMBER?
It's the PRINCIPAL ENERGY LEVEL of an atom. It is denoted by a small "n"
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What is special between HYDROGEN & the Principal energy level?
The Energy level depends only on "n"
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What does the bigger value of "n" means?
It means that the ENERGY OF THE ELECTRON is increasing, and it is found further from the NUCLEUS.
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What's a Sub-level?
A sub-division of the first energy level, n
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What does the SECOND QUANTUM NUMBER, l give us?
It gives us the SHAPE of the cloud of electrons.
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What does LARGER VALUES of l denote?
They denote more complex shape of electrons in an atom
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What is the THIRD QUANTUM NUMBER, ml?
It's the quantum number which determines the DIRECTION OF SPIN of the Electron Cloud in Space.
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What does the FOURTH QUANTUM Number tell us?
It tells us of the DIRECTION OF THE SPIN.
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What are the parallel spins?
The electrons with the same DIRECTION OF SPIN
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What are OPPOSITE SPINS?
Are the electrons with the OPPOSITE SPIN DIRECTION
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State the PAULI'S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE:
No 2 electrons in an ATOM can have the SAME 4 Identical QUANTUM NUMBERS.
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What are some ways we can represent electrons?
Through QUANTUM Numbers, Orbitals & through electronic configuration & ORBITAL DIAGRAMS to name a few.
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What is an ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION?
An electronic configuration is the way of representing electrons as populations in their respective Sub-levels.
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What is the abbreviated electronic configuration?
A notation of denoting electrons by shortening using a Noble gas which corresponds to the amount of number of electrons satisfying it
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What are ORBITAL DIAGRAMS?
A way to present electrons by showing ELECTRON SPINS directions as UP & DOWN ARROWS.
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State Hund's RULE:
"When several Orbitals of Equal energy are available, as in a given SUB-LEVEL, electrons enter singly with Parallel Spins"
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What are PAIRED electrons in orbitals?
They are the ELECTRONS of OPPOSITE Spins occupying the Orbitals.
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What does PARAMAGNETIC mean?
It means showing magnetic attraction due to the presence of UNPAIRED ELECTRONS.
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What does DIMAGNETIC mean?
It means showing a REPULSION of a Magnetic FIELD, due to the presence of PAIRED ELECTRONS.
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What are Isoelectronic elements?
They are atoms with the same electronic configuration.
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Why do metals to the right of Scandium not form ions with noble gas configurations?
because it would require a lot of energy to remove the electrons.
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State the Periodic Law:
"The chemical & physical properties of elements are a periodic function of their atomic number"
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What is ATOMIC RADIUS?
It's One half of the closest distance of the nuclei from an ordinary element
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What is ATOMIC RADIUS?
It's half of the closest distance of the nuclei from an ordinary element. (Assumed Elements are connected)
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What's the TREND OF THE ATOMIC RADII in the Periodic TABLE?
- It INCREASES DOWN THE GROUP
- It DECREASES ACROSS THE PERIOD
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What is IONIC RADIUS?
It's the RADIUS assigned to a MONO-ATOMIC atom
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What's the Trend of IONIC RADIUS in the PERIODIC Table?
- It INCREASES DOWN THE GROUP
- It DECREASES ACROSS THE PERIOD
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What is IONIZATION ENERGY?
It's the measure of how diffciulty it is to REMOVE AN ELECTRON FROM A GASEOUS ATOM.
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What is IONIZATION ENERGY?
It measures how difficult it is to REMOVE AN ELECTRON FROM A GASEOUS ATOM.
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What is the FIRST IONIZATION ENERGY?
It is the ENERGY CHANGE for the removal of the OUTERMOST ELECTRON.
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What is the Trend for IONIZATION ENERGY in the PERIODIC Table?
- It INCREASES ACROSS THE PERIOD
-It DECREASES DOWN the GROUP
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What is ELECTRONEGATIVITY?
The tendency of an Atom to attract electrons towards itself/its bonds.
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What is Density?
it's the unit mass of substance over equal volume of that substance
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What are the applications of density?
- Floating of ship
- Construction of aeroplane
- Filling Balloon with air
- The use of metals & metalloids in various bioprosthetics usages
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Why does ship float in water? or Submarine, or aeroplane?
The surface area & volume inside makes it later with it's mass, that is less denser.
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Why do Balloons float in air?
Because the Hydrogen air in it becomes on top of the Balloon, making it to float.
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What specifically makes aeroplanes float in air?
- The materials used in construction, & the fuel are all less denser. The materials are metalloids which are less denser
- The air in space within
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What's the difference between ACCURACY & PRECISION?
Accuracy - Means the closeness of the experimental value to the actual value.
Precision - The carryout of experiment/analysis to get closer to accurate value
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What's the difference between ACCURACY & PRECISION?
Accuracy - This means the closeness of the experimental value to the actual value.
Precision - The closeness of the experimented values to themselves & tp the accurate value
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What is a PYCNOMETER?
It's a Lab apparatus to determine density
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What's a TETRAHEDRA?
A figure with 3 triangular faces and a triangular base
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What happens as electrons are at an optimum distance & energy?
It forms a MOLECULE State e.g in Hydrogen Molecule
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Where does COVALENT BOND Exist?
In the MOLECULES & POLYATOMIC IONS
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What's the FUNDAMENTAL LOGIC BEHIND LEWIS Structure?
By sharing electrons, Non-metals become stable, as they acquire NOBLE GAS STRUCTURE.
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What are VALENCE ELECTRONS?
The electrons of the Outermost Principal energy "n". For the Main Group elements it's the last digit of the group number.
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What is a LEWIS STRUCTURE?
A structure of a molecule or an ion, Showing the bond and the electrons as dots surrounding the atoms.
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Why are the VALENCE Electrons only shown in the LEWIS STRUCTURE?
Because they are the one which participate in the Covalent bond
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What is an unshared electron pair?
It is a PAIR of electrons belonging to one ATOM. It isn't involved in a BONDING
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What is a lone pair?
It is a pair of electrons that are unbonded and exists in a single atom
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What is a SINGLE BOND?
It is a bond consisting of only a SINGLE PAIR of shared electrons
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What is a DOUBLE BOND?
It is a bond consisting of TWO PAIRS of shared elctrons
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State the OCTET RULE:
Bonded atoms (Except Hydrogen), tend to have share in eight Valence electrons
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What's a Central atom?
An atom at the centre of a MOLECULE, to which one or more electrons are bonded from
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What are Terminal atoms?
They are the atoms bonded to the CENTRAL ATOM. They are usually Hydrogen, Oxygen or Halogens
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Which atoms usually NEVER form Double BONDS?
Hydrogen & Halogens
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What separates REASONANCE STRUCTURES?
A double headed arrow
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What is a REASONANCE STRUCTURE/form?
A presentation of a Lewis structure of a molecule, showing the possibilities that the real structure might be one of them
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What is the REASONANCE HYBRID FORM?
The presentation of a Resonance structure.
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Why is RESONANCE there?
They occur when a Lewis structure fails to describe the real properties of a substance.
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Mention an organic Structure with REASONANCE
Benzene
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What are ISOMERS?
They are compounds with same formula but different properties
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What is the FORMAL CHARGE?
It is a charge that an ATOM will have in a molecule if the BONDING ELECTRONS were equally shared
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What are the applications of the FORMAL CHARGE?
It helps us know the CORRECT LEWIS STRUCTURE.
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What is the other name given to the Odd electron Species like NO?
Free Radicals
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What are FREE RADICALS?
They are the polyatomic ions which don't OBEY THE LEWIS STRUCTURE, by having a deficiency in the Central atom
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What are the EXPANDED OCTETS?
They are the Species of compounds which have more than 8 electrons in their Central atom
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What are bond angles?
They are angles between 2 covalent Bonds
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What is a linear molecule?
A triatomic molecule with a bond angle of 180 degrees
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What's a BENT MOLECULE?
A triatomic molecule with Bond Angles less than 180 degrees.
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What is Molecular Geometry?
The shape of the molecule showing the relative position of atoms
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What is Electron PAIR REPULSION?
The principle to predict the Shape of the molecule, where the atoms repel each other as far as possible
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What is VSEPR?
It's the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory
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What does the VSEPR model suggest?
That the Valence electron pairs surrounding an atom repel one another and the Orbitals with these shells are oriented far apart from each other
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What is an IDEAL GEOMETRY?
It is the Geometry of the molecule assuming the effect of the Unshared electrons was neglected
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What are the Bond angles of Molecular geometry?
- Linear = 180
- Trigonal planar = 120
- Tetrahedron = 109.5
- Trigonal bipyramid = 90,120,180
- Octahedron = 90, 180
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What is a Polar molecule?
A Covalent Bond molecule with UNSYMETRICAL distributions of electrons, hence forming a +ve & a -ve Pole (Dipole)
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What is a Non-Polar molecule?
A Covalent Bond molecule with SYMETRICAL distribution of electrons. Usually has no -ve or +ve Poles.
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What type of molecules have Non polar covalent Bonds?
Identical Atoms
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What is a DIPOLE MOMENT?
The extent to which the polar molecules orient themselves in an ELECTRIC FIELD
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What is a DIPOLE?
State at which a molecule has +ve & -ve poles in its atom
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Valence Bond Model
Models of the Electronic Structure of molecules in which electrons are assigned to ORBITALS. Whether Pure or hybridized of Individual atoms
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What is a hybridized atomic Orbital?
An orbital is formed by mixing 2 types of Orbitals
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What is HYBRIDIZATION?
It's the mixing of 2 or more Orbitals or structures
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What is a Sigma Bond?
A chemical Bond which the Electron density in the Inter-Nuclear axis is High
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How is the Electron density along the Bonding axis of a Sigma Bond?
Along the axis, the Electron Density is zero
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What is a Pi Bond?
The chemical Bond in which the electron density is concentrated far off the Nuclear axis
