CHEMISTRY REGENTS OVERVIEW – Flashcards

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PROTONS
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POSITIVELY CHARGED (+)
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NEUTRONS
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NO CHARGE
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ELECTRONS
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- ARE SMALL AND ARE NEGATIVELY CHARGED(-)

- FOUND IN "CLOUDS" ORBITALS AROUND AN ATOM'S NUCLEUS
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NUCLEONS
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PROTONS AND NEUTRONS THAT ARE IN AN ATOM'S NUCLEUS
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MASS NUMBER
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- IS EQUAL TO AN ATOM'S NUMBER OF PROTONS AND NEUTRONS ADDED TOGETHER
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ATOMIC NUMBER
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- equal to the # of protons in the nucleus of an atom
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NUMBER OF NEUTRONS
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- equal to mass number - atomic number
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ISOTOPES
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- atoms with equal number of protns, but diifer in neutron number
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CATIONS
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- positively charged ions (+)

- forms when a neutral atom loses electrons

- smaller than their parent atom (anion)
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ANIONS
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- negatively charged ions (-)

- forms when a neutral atom gains electrons

- larger than their parent atom (cations)
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ERNEST RUTHERFORD - GOLD-FOIL EXPERIMENT
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- showed that an atom is consisted of empty space with a small, dense, positively charged nucleus
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DALTON'S MODEL OF ATOM
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- showed solid sphere of matter that was uniform throughout
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BOHR MODEL OF ATOM
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- in model of atom, placed electrons orbiting around the nucleus
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CURRENT WAVE - MECHANICAL MODEL
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- shows atoms with electrons in clouds around the atom's nucleus
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STP
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- standard temperature & pressure (273 kelvin and 1 atm)
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BRIGHT LINE SPECTRA
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- electrons emit energy as light when they jump from the higher energy levels back to the ground state.
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ELEMENTS
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- pure substances composed of only one kind of atom
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BINARY COMPOUNDS
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- substances made up of two kinds of atoms (ex: H20, NH3, CO2)
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DIATOMIC COMPOUNDS
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- elements that form two atom molecules in their natural form at STP

* REMEMBER THE PHRASE - " BrINCIHOF"
(BR2, I2, N2, CL2, H2, O2, F2)
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SOLUTIONS
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homogenous mixtures (air, salt water, etc.)
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HOMOGENOUS
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- A class of matter with definite properties whose members are composed of two or more substances, each retaining its own identifying properties (e.g., mixed vegetables).
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HETEROGENEOUS
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A heterogeneous compound, mixture, reaction or other such object is one that consists of many different items, which are often not easily sorted or separated, though they are clearly distinct.
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SOLUTE
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- substance being dissolved
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SOLVENT
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- substances that dissolves the solute
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PHYSICAL CHANGES
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- do not from new substances

- merely change the appearance of the original substance (melting of ice)
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CHEMICAL CHANGES
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- results in the formation of new substances (ex: the burning of hydrogen gas to produce water vapor)
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REACTANTS AND PRODUCTS
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- REACTANTS = left side of the reaction arrow

- PRODUCTS = right side of the reaction arrow
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ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS
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- absorb heat

- the energy value is on the left side of the reaction arrow in a forward reaction
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EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS
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- releases energy

- energy is the product in the reaction
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SYNTHESIS REACTIONS
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- when two or more reactants combine to become one
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DECOMPOSITION REACTIONS
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- occurs when a single reactant forms two or more products
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SINGLE REPLACEMET REACTIONS
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- when one element replaces another element in a compound
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DOUBLE REPLACEMENT REACTIONS
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- occurs when two compounds react to form to new compounds
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LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS
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- masses of reactants = masses of products
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GRAM FORMULA MASS
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- sum of the atomic masses of all the atoms in a substance
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Use this diagram to help determine the number of significant figures in a
measured value…
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Pacific Atlantic




If the decimal point is present, start counting digits from the Pacific (left) side,
starting with the first non-zero digit.
1 2 3
0.00310 (3 sig. figs.)
If the decimal point is absent, start counting digits from the Atlantic (right) side,
starting with the first non-zero digit.
3 2 1
31,400 (3 sig. figs.)
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ELECTRON CONFIGURATION
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Electron configurations are written in the bottom center of an element’s box on the
periodic table in your reference tables.





# of electrons in 3rd principal energy level
# of electrons in 2nd principal energy level
# of electrons in 1st principal energy level
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ISOTOPES
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Isotopes are written in a number of ways: C-14 is also Carbon-14, and is also
mass number 14C
atomic number 6
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SOLIDS
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- definite shape and volume
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LIQUIDS
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- no definite shape, but definite shape
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GASES
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- no definite shape or volume

- random particle motion
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SUBLIMATION
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- substances that turn from a solid directly to a gas (CO2, I2)
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SUBLIMATION
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- substances that turn from a solid directly to a gas (CO2, I2)
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DEGREES KELVIN
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- C + 273
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HEAT OF FUSION
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- the heat absorbed or released when 1 gram of substances changes from a solid to liquid phase
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HEAT OF VAPORIZATION
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- heat absorbed or releases when 1 gram of substance moves from liquid phase to gas phase
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PRESSURE/VOLUME
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- pressure of gas increases, volume decreases

- pressure of gas decreases, volume increases
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REAL GASES
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- real gas particles have volume

- attracted to one another

- not behave like ideal gases

- will behave like ideal gases under low pressure and high temp.
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DISTILLATION
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- SEPARATING MIXTURES WITH DIFFERENT BOILING POINTS
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FILTRATION
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- separating mixtures of solids and liquids

-chromotography can also be used
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NOBLE GASES (GROUP 18)
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- (GROUP 18) - inert and stable
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IONIZATION
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- increases as you GO UP AND TO THE RIGHT OF TABLE
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ATOMIC RADII
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- decreases left to right

- due to increasing nuclear charge

- increases as you go downa group
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ELECTRONEGATIVITY
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- measure of an element's attractions to electrons
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ALKALI METALS
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- Group 1
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ALKALINE EARTH METALS
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- Group 2
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