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Ch. 2 The nature of molecules & the properties of water Flashcards

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What type of bond allows water to “stick” to other surfaces/associate with other molecules?

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Hydrogen bond

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What’s matter?

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Anything that has mass and takes up space; composed of atoms

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What did Rutherford’s scatter experiment discover?

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The existence of the nucleus

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What did Neils Bohr propose?

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The Bohr model which states that every atom has an orbiting cloud of electrons whizzing around a dense nucleus formed by protons and neutrons

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What’s an atomic number?

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the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom

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What’s an element?

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Simplest form of chemical matter, cannot be broken further

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What charge do protons have?

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Positive

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What charge do neutrons have?

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Neutral (no charge)

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What charge do electrons have?

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Negative

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Which element has no neutrons?

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Hydrogen

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What’s mass?

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the amount of matter in an object

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What’s weight?

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the force of gravity acting on an object

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What does the atomic mass of an atom equal?

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The sum of the masses of its protons and neutrons

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What’s a dalton?

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unit of measurement for the mass of atoms and subatomic particles

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What’s a neutral atom?

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Atom that has equal amount of protons and electrons

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What’s an ion?

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an atom with an unequal number of protons and electrons which results in charged particles

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What’s an isotope?

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Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons

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What’s radioactive decay?

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When an unstable isotope’s nucleus breaks up

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What’s a half-life?

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time it takes one half of the atoms in a sample to decay (usually a constant rate)

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What’s the main issue with the Bohr model?

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Not accurate in terms of reality as electrons can be anywhere and not in a circle around the nucleus

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What’s an orbital?

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A three-dimensional region around the nucleus that indicates the probable location of an electron

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How many electrons can be in the first orbital?

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no more than 2

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What makes up the volume of an atom?

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empty space

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What determines the chemical behavior of an atom?

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The distribution of electrons in the atoms electron shells

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Define energy
the ability to do work
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Moving an electron away from the nucleus ______ potential but ________ if moved closer.
increases, decreases
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What's a redox reaction?
when reduction and oxidation happen at the same time
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Who created the periodic table of elements?
Dmitri Mendeleev
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What are valence electrons?
Electrons on the outermost energy level of an atom
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What electrons are known to be the basis for differing chemical properties of elements?
valence electrons
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What is the octet rule?
Atoms tend to gain, lose or share electrons in order to have a full set of valance electrons.
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What are organic compounds made of (abbreviation only)
OCHN
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What's the most common molecule in the human body?
Water
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What's the most abundant element in the human body?
oxygen
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What's a compound?
a molecule with atoms of more than one element
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What are chemical bonds?
where atoms in molecules are bonded
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What are ionic bonds?
atoms that have gained or lost electrons and become charged
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What are covalent bonds?
Are atoms that are sharing a pair or more of valence electrons.
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What's a hydrogen bond?
a weak bond between two partially charged atoms occurs between a hydrogen atom and another atom that is more electronegative (such as nitrogen and oxygen)
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What's a hydrophobic interaction?
forcing of hydrophobic portions of a molecule together in presence of polar substances
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What's hydrophobic mean?
Fear of water
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What's hydrophilic mean?
Water loving
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What's a van der waals attraction?
weak attractions between atoms due to opposite polarized electron clouds
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Why is a molecule formed by 2 hydrogen atoms stable? (hint there are 3 answers)
1) has no net charge 2) octet rule is satisfied 3) has no unpaired electrons
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What are double bonds?
when atoms share two pairs of electrons
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What are single bonds?
when two atoms share a single pair of electrons
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What's a non-polar bond?
a covalent bond in which electrons are shared equally
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What is a polar covalent bond?
unequal sharing of electrons
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What's a chemical reaction?
formation or breaking of chemical bonds
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What's a reactant?
a substance present at the start of a reaction
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What's a product?
What's produced at the end of a chemical reaction
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What are the 3 things that influence chemical reactions?
1) temperature 2) concentration of reactants and products 3) catalysts
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What's a catalyst?
substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction
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What's adhesion?
attraction between molecules of different substances
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What is temperature?
the result of how fast individual molecules are moving
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What's specific heat?
the heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by a given amount
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What is heat of vaporization?
the heat a liquid must absorb for 1 g to be converted to gas
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What's hydrophobic exclusion?
tendency of non polar molecules to aggregate in water
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What's ionization?
a process when a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge based on how many electrons said molecule gains or loses
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What's a mole?
weight of a substance in grams that corresponds to the atomic masses of all of the atoms in a single molecule of that substance
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What does pH stand for?
power of hydrogen
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What is acid?
any compound that forms H+ ions in solution
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What is basic?
solutions with a pH above 7 because they have more OH- ions
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What's a buffer?
a solution that resists change in pH
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What does OH- stand for?
Hydroxide
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What does [H+] mean?
concentration of hydrogen ions
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What is the order (from strongest to weakest) of the bonds and their interactions?
1) covalent 2) ionic 3) hydrogen 4) hydrophobic 5) van der Waals
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What's a solvent?
The substance that dissolves the solute and makes a solution.

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