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1
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What is Avagadro’s number?

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6.02 x 10^23

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what is the formula for mass?

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moles x RAM

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What is RFM and how do you calculate it?

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the sum of the relative atomic mass of all atoms in a compount (relative formula mass) just add it all up (eg O2- 16 x 2 = 32)

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How do you calculate the mass of one atom of a given element?

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divide the relative atomic (or formula, if needed) mass by Avagadro’s number

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How do you calculate the percentage mass of a given element in a compound?

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Work out each of their mass, then the total, and do a percentage.

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how do you calculate empirical formulae, when given the mass of each element in a compound?

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Use the mass and R.A.M to find out how many moles there are of each element, then look for the ratio- divide by the smallest, if it’s not obvious

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What is the difference between empirical and molecular formulae?

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the empirical formula is the simplest whole number of the different atoms in a molecule. For example, C2H6 is CH3
The molecular formula is the actual number (eg C2H6)

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If given the relative formula mass and empirical formula of a compound, how do you work out the molecular formula?

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Divide the RFM by the sum of all the empirical formula’s atoms, then mutiply the number of those atoms by the result (eg: a compound has a formula of NO2 but an RFM of 92: RFM of NO2 is 46, 92 / 46 = 2, therefore the RFM of the compound is N2O4)

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How do you calculate the amount of a compound formed when a compound is burned? (eg: CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2)

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identify the ratio of the needed substances
calculate the number of moles
use the ratio to work out the number of moles in the other substance (eg : CaO and CaCO3 are in a 1:1 ratio; if there are 0.2 moles of CaO there are also 0.2 moles of CaCO3)
then, calculate the mass of the unknown substance

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how do you calculate percentage yield?

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Actual Yield / Theoretical Yield * 100

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what is a stoichiometric coefficient?

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the “balancing numbers” eg, in 2Mg + O2 -> 2MgO the stoichiometric coefficient is the 2 before Mg and MgO

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what is % atom economy?

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mass of desired product / total mass of products * 100

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13
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how many decimetres cubed in a litre?

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1

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what is the formula for concentration?

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mass / volume

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what is the unit of concentration?

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g/dm^3

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What is a 1M solution?

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one mole dissolved in one dm^3 of solvent

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