CALCULATIONS USED IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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IMPORTANT UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

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SI Units of Measurement, Mass and Weight, Mole and Millimole

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A standardized system of units that is based
on the seven fundamental base units

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International System of Units (SI)

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SI Base Unit: Mass

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Kilogram

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SI Base Unit:Length

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Meter (m)

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SI Base Unit:Time

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Second (s)

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SI Base Unit: Temperature

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Kelvin (K)

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SI Base Unit: Amount of
substance

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Mole (mol)

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SI Base Unit: Electric
current

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Ampere (A)

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SI Base Unit: Luminous
intensity

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candela (cd)

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Used to express small or large measured quantities
in terms of a few simple digits

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PREFIXES

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Wavelength yellow light

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= 5.9 x 10-7 or 590 nm
(nanometers)

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Volume of a liquid injected onto a chromatographic
column =

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roughly 50 x 10-6 L, or 50 μL (microliters)

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The amount of memory on some computer hard disks
is

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around 20 x 109bytes, or 20 Gbytes (gigabytes)

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In analytical chemistry, we often determine the
amount of ?

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chemical species

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults:
Ammonia:

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15-50 μmol/L

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Chloride:

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95-105 mmol/L

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Copper:

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70-150 μg/dL

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Creatinine:

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0.8-1.3 mg/dL

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Ferritin:

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12-300 ng/mL (men), 12-150 ng/mL
(women)

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Glucose:

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65-110 mg/dL

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Laboratory Reference Ranges in Healthy Adults: Ceruloplasmin:

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15-50 mg/dL

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an invariant measure of the quantity of matter
in an object

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Mass

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– the force of attraction between an object and
its surroundings, principally the earth

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Weight

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is the SI unit for the amount of a chemical
substance

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Mole (mol)

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Expressed as the number of entities such as atoms, molecules, ions, electrons or other particles given by the Avogadro’s number (6.02x10^23)

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Mole (mol)

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Millimole =

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1/1000 of a mole

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millimolar mass (mM) =

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1/1000 of the molar mass.

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1 mole =

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1000 millimoles

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is the quantitative relationship among the amounts of reacting chemical species.

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Stoichiometry

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It gives us how much mass of each of the reactants is needed in a given chemical reaction, and the number of product/s formed.

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Stoichiometry

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Apparently, stoichiometry involves working in a __________ equation.

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balanced

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gives the simplest whole number ratio of atoms in a chemical compound.

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EMPIRICAL FORMULA

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specifies the number of atoms in a molecule.

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MOLECULAR FORMULA

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is a visual representation that shows how atoms are arranged and bonded together in a chemical compound.

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is a visual representation that shows how atoms are arranged and bonded together in a chemical compound.

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A balanced chemical equation follows the principle of ______________________ – “Matter is neither created nor destroyed.”

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Law of Mass Conservation

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Four fundamental ways of expressing solution concentration:

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 Molar/Analytical concentration  Percent concentration  Solution-diluent volume ratio  P-functions

Question 37

is the number of moles that species that is contained in 1 liter of the solution (not 1L of solvent).

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MOLAR CONCENTRATION OF A SOLUTION OF A SOLUTE SPEXIES X

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gives the total number of moles of a solute in 1 liter of the solution (or the total number of millimoles in 1 mL).

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MOLAR ANALYTICAL CONCENTRATION OF A SOLUTION

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refers to the molar concentration of a particular species in a solution at equilibrium

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MOLAR EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION OR EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION

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PERCENT CONCENTRATION OF THE SOLUTION is also expressed as parts per hundred. This can be expressed in three ways:

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weight precent (w/w), volume percent (v/v), weight/volume percent (w/v)

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ppm formula

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(mass of solute/mass of solution) x 10^6 ppm

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ppb formula

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(mass of solute/mass of solution) x 10^9 ppb

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ppt formula

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(mass of solute/mass of solution) x 10^3

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The composition of a dilute solution is specified in terms of the volume of a more concentrated solution and the volume of solvent used in diluting it.

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SOLUTION-DILUENT VOLUME RATIOS

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The p-value is the negative algorithm of the molar the concentration of the species X. Formula?

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pX= -log [X]

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The density of a substance is its

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mass per volume (kg/L or g/mL).

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d = mass/volume

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density

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sp.gr. = density of substance density of water

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specific gravity