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States of Matter Flashcards

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What are properties of a solid?

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  • Particles are very close together
  • Vibrate in fixed positions
  • Low energy
  • Hard to compress
  • Constant shape, mass and volume
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What are properties of a liquid?

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  • Particles are quite close together
  • Move slowly
  • Medium energy
  • Hard to compress
  • Constant mass and volume, but no fixed shape
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What are properties of a gas?

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  • Particles are far apart
  • Move quickly and randomly
  • High energy
  • Easy to compress
  • Constant mass, but no fixed shape or volume
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Solid to Liquid

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Melting

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Liquid to Gas

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Evaporation

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Gas to Solid

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Deposition/Desublimation

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Gas to Liquid

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Condensation

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Solid to Gas

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Sublimation

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Liquid to Solid

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Freezing

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What is the difference between Evaporation and Boiling?

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Evaporation happens at every temperature, boiling happens at a specific temperature (boiling point).

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What is the similarity between Evaporation and Boiling?

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They are both the change of state from liquid to gas.

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Why does the temperature of a substance not change during a change of state?

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Because the thermal energy is being used to break the forces.

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What is diffusion?

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The movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration.

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What does soluble mean?

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A substance that can be dissolved.

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What does insoluble mean?

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A substance that cannot be dissolved.

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What is a solute?

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The solid that has been dissolved.

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What is a solvent?

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The liquid that the solid is dissolved into.

18
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What is a solution?

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2 or more substances that have been dissolved with each other.

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What is a mixture?

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2 or more substances that are mixed but not chemically combined.
It is an impure substance that could be elements/compounds/both, but with no fixed ratios.

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What does miscible mean?

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Liquids that can mix together. (homogenous)

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What does immiscible mean?

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Liquids that cannot mix together.

22
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Solubility equation

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Solubility = mass of solute needed to make a saturated solution in 100cm³ of water.

23
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What is a saturated solution?

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A solution which cannot dissolve any more solute.

24
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How does solubility change with temperature?

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In a curve

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          x x
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What is an element?

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An element is a pure substance made up of one type of atom only. The atoms can be separate or molecules.

26
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What is a molecule?

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A molecule is 2 or more atoms chemically combined. This can be an element or a compound.

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What is a compound?

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A compound is a pure substance made of 2 or more different types of atoms chemically bonded. It must be a molecule.

28
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How does filtration work?

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  • Put sand in a beaker with water, and stir to mix
  • Fold the filter paper in half twice, and place it in a funnel, in a conical flask
  • Pour the mixture in
  • The sand molecules are too large to fit through the holes in the filter paper, but the water can
  • The sand in the filter paper is called the residue, and the water is the filtrate.
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How does crystallisation work?

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  • Put salt in a beaker with water, and stir until all the salt is dissolved
  • Pour the saltwater solution in an evaporating basin
  • Use a bunsen burner to evaporate all the water, leaving the crystallised salt.
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How does chromatography work?

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  • Draw a line on the paper in pencil, 1cm above the bottom. Then put a spot of your mixture onto the line.
  • Put the paper in a beaker with some solvent (eg. water), ensuring the solvent’s level is below the pencil line
  • Solvent soaks up the paper
  • The pattern you get is called a chromatagram
  • The top spot is most soluble because it travelled the furthest
31
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How does a separating funnel work?

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  • Open tap so the bottom liquid exits
  • Close tap to leave other liquid
32
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How does simple distillation work?

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  • The solution is heated until the liquid with the lower boiling point evaporates
  • The gas travels into the condenser
  • Here it cools to condense and drip into the beaker, forming the distillate
  • The other liquid / the solid is left in the flask.
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How does fractional distillation work?

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  • The solution is heated until the liquids evaporate
  • They travel to the fractionating column, which has a temperature gradient (hot at bottom, cold at top)
  • Repeated evaporation and condensation happens here
  • Liquid with the lowest boiling point reaches the top first, and travels to the condenser
  • Here it cools to condense and distills over
  • Once the thermometer at the top reaches the next substance’s boiling point, replace the beaker at the bottom.
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How would you separate a soluble solute and a solvent?

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Crystallisation.

35
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How would you separate an insoluble solute and a solvent?

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Filtration.

36
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How would you separate two or more immiscible liquids?

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Separating Funnel.

37
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How would you separate two inks?

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Chromatography.

38
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How would you separate two or more miscible liquids with different boiling points?

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Simple Distillation.

39
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How would you separate two or more miscible liquids with similar boiling points?

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Fractional Distillation.

40
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How would you separate a soluble solute and a solvent, but also keep the solvent?

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Simple Distillation.

41
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Rf Value

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Rf = Distance travelled by component / Distance travelled by solvent

GCSE Chemistry (13 decks)

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