Module 2: Water Flashcards
What is water?
Water is a compound of molecules made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atoms. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are held together by a covalent bond, which means they share electrons. However, this sharing of electrons is not equal. The oxygen atom has a stronger ‘pull’, resulting in a slight negative charge at oxygen end of a water molecule, and a slight positive charge at the hydrogen end of the molecule. Therefore, water can be described as a polar molecule as it has a positive and negative pole. This results in molecules being attracted to each other (known as hydrogen bonding), which explains many physical properties of water
Solids, liquids, and gases
- physical states of matter
- easy to change a substance from one physical state to another
- changes of state results in a change from a solid to a liquid to a gas
Particle nature of matter
All matter is made up of small particles
Solids:
Strong forces holding particles to one another. These strong forces cause solids to have a definite shape and to be hard, resulting in an orderly arrangement of particles.
Liquids:
Particles within a liquid are arranged in a less orderly fashion, and move around more freely. The forces between particles weaker than in solids, and the additional motion results in more kinetic energy.
Gas:
The particles within a gas are much further apart than in solids or liquids (very far apart), therefore the particles are moving so rapidly that there no significant forces between them.
- gases can be compressed as there are big spaces between them.
Matter
- matter can be either homogenous or heterogenous
- can exist in 3 physical states (solids, liquids, and gases) and two chemical forms (compound or an element)
What is heterogenous matter?
Heterogenous matter has a uniform composition and properties. It may exist as a mixture (brass), a compound (water), or an element (pure ion).
What is heterogenous matter?
Heterogenous matter does not have a definite composition, such as granite
What is a pure substance? Provide examples
A pure substance is homogenous and cannot be separated into 2 or more substances by physical or mechanical means.
A pure substance has a fixed composition, and has constant properties.
Examples - Crystals of sugar Gold Copper Table salt Alcohol Diamond Aluminium
What is a mixture? Provide examples
Mixtures can be separated into 2 or more substances by filtering, boiling, or using a magnet. Mixtures may be homogenous (tap water, air) or heterogenous (fruit cake, concrete)
a mixture can be composed of homogenous or heterogenous substances, have variable composition, and may be separated by mechanical (physical) means.
Examples - Sea water Air Coffee Milk Petrol Whiskey Brass Silver coins
What is a compound?
A compound is a pure substance that can be broken down (decomposed) by chemical means. However, a compound can be decomposed into elements.
A compound is made up of two or more elements eg. Salt, water, sodium carbonate, sulfate, alcohol
What is an element?
An element is pure substance that cannot be broken down (decomposed) via chemical means.
Atoms:
An atom is the smallest particle of an element, which is still recognisable as that element, and are the basic building blocks of matter. They consist of a nucleus and an election cloud.
Each different type of atom contains a certain number of 3 types of subatomic particles: neutrons (no charge), electrons (- charge), and protons (+ charge).
A nucleus:
Is composed of protons and neutrons
What is a molecule?
Molecules are the second building blocks of matter, and are a combination of two or more of the same or different elements held together by a chemical bond. Molecules are the basic building blocks of many compounds.
Atomic bonding - the behaviour of all materials, substances, and matter can be explained in terms of:
The nature of bonding between atoms, and between groups of atoms (know as molecules)
AND
The transfer of energy between the atoms and by the movement of electrons.
What are the three types of bonding that are relevant to water molecules?
Covalent bonding
Hydrogen bonding
Ionic bonding
How does water form covalent bonds?
Covalency of an atom is the number of electors that an element shares. Covalent bonds occurs between two non- metals.
Hydrogen has a covalency of 1 - so it will share 1 electron
Oxygen atom has a covalency of 2 - so will share two electrons
Sharing electrons in covalent bonds:
The electrons in a covalent bond are shared.
A pair of electrons are shared equally with two identical atoms
Unequal sharing of electrons:
a covalent bond between different atoms has an unequal sharing of electrons.
- when oxygen and hydrogen share electrons, the electrons are more closely associated with the oxygen atom, resulting in a slight negative charge forming on the end of the oxygen atom, and a slight positive charge forming on the end of the hydrogen atoms
Shape and charge of a water molecule
Water is not linear. The angle between the hydrogen atoms is 104.5* therefore one end of water will have a slightly positive charge and the other will have a slightly negative change l - making it a polar molecule because it has a positive and negative pole
What is hydrogen bonding?
Miller & Spoolman, 2013
When water molecules approach one another, they will form hydrogen bonds between the slightly positive hydrogen atom or one water molecule and the slightly negative oxygen of another molecule.
Hydrogen bonds
The strongest type of intermolecular bond. The small size of the water molecule compared to the magnitude of the hydrogen bonding attraction results in many of water’s physical properties. The presence of hydrogen bonding results in many of water’s chemical properties
