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Stoichiometry Flashcards

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What must we use because we use large amounts of molecules and atoms in the real world?

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Average masses in calculations

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What is average atomic mass also known as?

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atomic weight

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How is the average atomic mass calculated?

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Calculated from the isotopes of an element weighted by their relative abundances.

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What is the percentage of an element that is 1 isotope called?

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natural abundance

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When is mass spectrometry used?

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It is used when the masses of atoms and the percent abundances of isotopes of elements are measured.

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What is mass spectrometry?

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separates particles according to their mass

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What is a mole (mol)?

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a counting unit

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What does moles help with?

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Help provide a bridge from the real world scale to the molecular scale.

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What is Avogadro’s number?

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6.022 x 10^23

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What does a mole allow us to relate?

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mass to atoms of a substance

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What is molar mass?

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It is the mass of 1 mol of a substance (g/mol)

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Where do we find the molar mass of an element?

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on the periodic table

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What is an empirical formula?

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the lowest whole-number ratio of atoms of each element in a compound

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What is percent composition?

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the percentage by mass contributed by each element in the substance

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15
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Are the formulas obtained from percent compositions always the empirical formula?

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YES ALWAYS

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What is a molecular formula?

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Gives the exact number of atoms of each element in a compound

17
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What are chemical equations?

A

concise representations of chemical reactions

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What do letters in parentheses represent?

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states of matter

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Where are the reactants and products located in a chemical equation?

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reactants: left side
products: right side

20
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What do the subscripts tell you in a chemical euqation?

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the number of atoms of each element in a molecule

21
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What do the coefficients tell you in a chemicals equation?

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tell the number of molecules (used to balance equation)

22
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Which of the following quantities must always be the same on both sides of a chemical equation?

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  • same number of atoms of each kind

- the sum of the masses of all substances involved

23
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What is stoichiometry?

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the quantitative study of the amounts of reactants and products in chemical reactions

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