Chemistry 3/4 Summary Notes
Chemistry 3/4 Summary Notes
Summary Notes
2016
By David Pham
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Contents:
Chemical Analysis:
1. Gravimetric analysis
2. Volumetric analysis
3. Acid and Base Reactions
4. Analysing Oxidants and Reductants
5. Chromatography
6. Spectroscopy
7. Infrared spectroscopy
8. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
9. Mass spectroscopy
Organic Chemistry
1. Compounds of carbon
2. Organic reactions: pathway to new products
3. Proteins
4. Lipids (fats and oils)
5. Biofuels
6. DNA
Industrial Chemistry
1. Chemical energy
2. Yield and Equilibrium
3. Acid and base equilibrium
4. Indicators
5. Sulfuric acid (Case study: not needed for exam)
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Gravimetric Analysis
Applications in real life: The real life application is when you want to measure the
amount or percentage of salt in foods. This is to help with the nutrition information at
the back of your food labelling.
The reasons:
Why Crush? - Creates a greater surface area for the water to dissolve your wanted
chemical… aka faster reaction (Lower percentage in mass due to less wanted
chemical being reacted overall)
Why filter? - To remove excess chemicals of any sort. Any error is an increase to
percentage
Why rinse with deionized water? - Remove any excess chemical added (Will
increase mass/percentage if not rinsed)
Why heat it over and over? - To remove all the water (Will increase
mass/percentage)
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Why 110 not 100? - It is to fully evaporate all the water (Lower than that then you’d
get a higher percentage)
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Volumetric analysis
Primary standard
Definition: The solid/chemical that is used to prepare the standard solution. The
non-liquid/aqueous chemical.
Properties:
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Standard solutions
Definition: The standard solution is a solution that has a known concentration and
molecular formula to use in an equation. It is made from a primary standard or
otherwise stated in the question
1. Weigh out the primary standard on a scale and record the result.
2. Transfer the weighed solid into a volumetric flask (record the volume).
3. Fill the volumetric flask half way around the bulb with deionized water.
4. Use a blocker to close the volumetric flask and shake the flask until all the
solid has been dissolved.
5. Fill the rest of the volumetric flask with deionized water to the mark on the
flask.
6. Record the concentration by using C = n/V
Steps:
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Endpoint = The endpoint is when the selected indicator changes color to represent
that the reaction is finish.
Equivalence point = The equivalence point is when there are equal number of
moles according to a balanced equation is present in the solution.
Pipette is ± 0.05 ml
Burette ± 0.02 ml for each reading
Volumetric flask ± 0.3 ml
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● Rinse the burette with the solution that it is going to be used as the titre. This
will have no effect on the experiment.
● Rinse the conical flask with deionised water since it does not affect the
moles.
● Rinse the volumetric flask with water since water does not affect mole count,
and since you are filling it up with water in the end anyways.
● Rinse the pipette with the solution that is going to be used as the aliquot.
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Revision:
pH basics:
Indicators:
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pH curves:
- Strong acid vs Strong Base = will full neutralise due to property, therefore
curve will be sharp (equivalence point) at ph of 7.
- Strong acid vs weak base = will partially react due to the weak base (meaning
more strong acid in solution), therefore curve will not be sharp, will have its
equivalence point ph < 7.
- Weak acid vs strong base = will partially react due to weak acid (meaning
more strong base in solution), therefore curve will not be sharp, will have
equivalence point ph > 7.
- Weak acid vs weak base = will be the same as strong vs strong.
Back Titration
Definition:
The term back titration is dissolving a solid or gas with a known chemical in excess
(known volume). Then reacting that excess chemical that was left over with another
to determine the information of the unknown.
Another way is you can perform a gravimetric with the excess chemical used from 5
and then follow the normal gravimetric approach.
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Potental errors
- Not transferring the sample from the mortar and pestle carefully…. Meaning
lower percentage by mass.
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Recap on Redox
O -Oxidation
I - Is
L - loss
R - Reduction
I - Is
G - Gain
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Chromatography
What is chromatograph?
Every single type of chromatography has two major components, the mobile phase
and the stationary phase. The mobile phase is the substance or liquid that carries
the sample along the stationary phase. The stationary phase does not move.
The sample gets dissolved into the mobile phase (so it can travel with it up the
stationary phase), which is known as desorption. The sample then get’s absorbed
onto the stationary phase, which is called adsorption. This is done super fast. Each
chemical has a different attraction to the stationary phase and will travel on it at a
different rate.
Thin-layer chromatography
It is a quick way to determine what type of chemicals are in your sample. This is
called a qualitative analysis.
There are two types, paper chromatography and thin layer chromatography.
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Method 1: Running standards of a known solution in the same condition. Under the
same condition, run the sample then compare the result with the unknown sample.
Eg:
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Column chromatography
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- The particles in the column are often 10-20 times smaller than in a column
chromatography.
- Very small size of solid particles allow for more frequent adsorption and
desorption of components, giving much better separation of similar
compounds.
- Small particle size creates a considerable resistance to the flow of the mobile
phase and so the solvent is pumped through under high pressure - up to
about 14,000 kPa.
- A range of solids is available for use in HPLC columns, some with chemicals
specially bonded to their surfaces to improve the separation of the particular
class of compounds.
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The components are usually detected by passing the eluent stream through a beam
of UV light since most organic compounds absorb UV. This then is recorded as a
spike on the graph.
The time taken for a component to pass through the column is called the retention
time, Rt. It is a unique time for every compound.
The retention times are used to identify the components associated with the peak on
a chromatogram (the graph produced). The relative amount of each component can
be determined by comparing the areas under each peak with the areas under peaks
for a standard sample.
Gas-Liquid chromatography
Gas-Solid chromatography
Stationary phase = packed with an absorbent solid such as silica gel or alumina
Mobile phase = gas
Sample = gas
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- The mobile phase is a gas, usually Nitrogen since it is inert. It is called the
carrier gas.
- A small amount of the sample is inserted into the machine via an injection
port.
- The column is in a loop, meaning it increases in travel length (stationary
phase) in a small amount of space.
- The column is mounted in an oven and heated.
- The detector can be a flame ionisation detector which means the compound
becomes ions and get’s detected. However, you lose the sample.
- Same graph reading as the HPLC.
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Spectroscopy
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Flame test
- The flame test is when you excite an element/atom so that the electrons jump
from its stable state to an excited state.
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- This measures how much light is absorbed, which in turn determines the
quantity of the present chemical being analyzed.
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You will run the sample through the machine, measure the absorbance. Then
whatever chemical you are looking for, create a pure sample of different
concentrations and run that through the same machine under the same conditions.
Create a calibration curve and compare your absorbance from the sample to the
calibration curve.
UV-Visible spectroscopy
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- Select the wavelength with the highest absorbance and lowest interfernace of
any other chemical
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Infrared spectroscopy
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Instrumental setup
Graphical result
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What is it?
NMR spectroscopy is a method of spectroscopy that uses radio waves, which does
not cause electronic, vibrational or rotational transitions. It causes the nucleus of the
atom to spin either in an up or down position. The positions are temporary when a
radio wave hits the atom. This up or down position can be seen as an on or off
switch. You are able to get 4 combinations (on-on, on-off, off-on, off-off note that
on-off and off-on are different combinations). Since the atoms are in an induced
spin, they want to get back to it’s original spot, how it does this is release the energy
off. This energy is then detected via a detector and a graph is produced.
There are two types of NMR. There is Hydrogen - 1 and Carbon - 13 NMR. The
hydrogen -1 NMR (H-NMR) provides information about the structure of any molecule
contained hydrogen. The carbon - 13 NMR (C-NMR) provides information about the
structure of any molecule containing carbon. This leads us to an idea called
environments.
The instrument:
What is an environment?
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Looking at the protruding carbons, there are 3 hydrogens attached to the carbon.
Looking around the molecule it is the same. All the methyl groups are connected to
the same silica. Hence, this will only have 1 environment.
Another idea of an environment is, let’s say you are in your house and you have two
neighbours next to you. This is a set of environment. Let’s say you have a friend who
lives in another suburb and has only 1 neighbour. They’ll be in a different
environment compared to you. You have two neighbours, they have 1. This is the
same for molecules. Let’s take another molecule
Counting the carbon from the right, the first set of hydrogens we see is the hydroxyl
group. This is one environment, since the only neighbour it has is oxygen. The next
set is the carbon set connected to the oxygen. There are two hydrogens connected
here. This is another separate hydrogen. No hydrogens are connected to the
oxygen. Looking at the next carbon, there is two hydrogens, similar to the previous.
In this case, we have to check it's next door carbons. They are different... we are
stuck. But wait, the neighbours are not similar at all. There is no oxygen around
carbon 2, hence creating another environment. Going to carbon 3, it has three
hydrogens, and the next door carbon has 2. A different environment. Hence this
molecule has 4 environments.
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- In VCE, we are expected to draw the structure from the graph, read the data
booklet, identify what each peak represent.
- There are two types of NMR spectra. The first is called low resolution HNMR and
high resolution HNMR. The low resolution provides us the rough idea of the
composition in the sample. High resolution allows us to draw the molecule.
Note: with CNMR, there is always going to be one peak because carbon 13 is so
rare and that carbon do not easily couple with each other.
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Instrumentation
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Fragmentation
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Compounds of carbon
Homologous series
Alkanes
Alkenes
- CnH2n
- Has a double bond in the carbon chain
Isomers
Isomers are molecules which have the same molecular formula, but different
structure which in turn changes its physical and chemical properties.
Naming
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COOH > OH > NH2 > Extended alky > Group 17 add ons
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RH + Cl2 → RHCl2
Making an alcohol
From an alkane, substitute halogen, then add NaOH (any base)
From an alkane, substitute halogen, then add NaOH (any base), then oxidise the
alcohol with MnO4- or Cr2O72- with H+ (usually H2SO4)
From an alkene, add water with catalyst, then oxidise the alcohol with MnO4- or
Cr2O72- with H+ (usually H2SO4)
Esterification
Polymerisation
Breaking the double bond, add on another homologous series to it (with it’s double
bond broken)
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Making Aspirin
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Protein
Proteins make up the human body. They are the fundamental cell structure and its
operation.
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Proteins are made from chains of amino acids. There are 20 amino acids
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When the amino acids join together, they produce water (aka a condensation
reaction). These amino acids join in a long chain to create protein. There are three
types of structure that chemist need to know.
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Enzymes
They are protein that speed up a reaction in the human body. For example, the
breakdown of maltose, would use an enzyme that can break it down. The enzyme
works by acting as a lock on a door. The maltose is the key. They key can only
unlock the lock.
Denaturing
Denaturing occurs when either the temperature reaches the threshold limit due to the
increase in kinetic energy, resulting in more collisions, resulting in the intermolecular
forces breaking, hence denaturing the active site.
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Fat is the name used to describe a large number of organic compounds called lipids.
Fats and oils fall under lipids
Fats and oils are formed when a glycerol (found in the data booklet) join with three
fatty acids (also found in the data booklet). This reaction is a condensation
reaction because water is being taken away. The final product is called a
triglyceride.
There are three types of fats, saturated fats (only single bonds), monounsaturated
(one carbon-carbon double bond) fats and polyunsaturated (more than one
carbon-carbon double bond) fats.
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Biofuels
Bioethanol
What is it?
- It is essentially the production of pure ethanol from a sustainable resource
such as wheat, which is then mixed with octane to produce a biofuel, called
E10. (10% ethanol and 90% petrol)
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How is it created?
Since the enzymes, aka yeast can only withstand a certain amount of temperature,
alcohol percentage and life span, the production of ethanol is not quite efficient.
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Biodiesel
What is it?
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How is it made?
Normally the final biodiesel product is mixed with diesel producing the shortened
name of B. For example B10 is 10% biodiesel and 90% diesel. We do not have this
in Australian since the majority of cars use petrol, while a minority are diesel.
However, as the years go by, we might start seeing B10 soon since the increase of
diesel cars being sold.
Biogas
What is it?
- An equal mixture of carbon dioxide and methane that are both in gaseous
form.
How is it made?
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Usage
Well as the years go by, the amount of crude oil we have in reserves will decrease
and since we are developing more ways to use that crude oil, we will soon run out of
it fast. This results in ours cars being left without a fuel source. What we need is an
alternative fuel source to continue running things with engines such as cars and
generators. These biofuels are made from nature. That is from waste, glucose, etc.
These are all renewable resources since the rate of production of waste and glucose
will be more than the consumption of these. However with crude oil, the regeneration
of crude oil will take many years and since we are using a lot of it, we are going to
need a new source of fuel.
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DNA
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic code of the human being or animal. It
contains instructions and information regarding that animal.
Structure
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Bonds between AT GC
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Chemical energy
Chemical energy is the potential energy stored in chemicals that can be converted to
other types of energy that we can use. An example of straight energy that we use is
the breakdown of glucose, which is a combustion within the body, producing heat.
Another that goes from one energy to another is a car engine. It goes from chemical
(petrol) to mechanical (wheels).
In a chemical reaction, the atoms interact with each other, producing different
chemical energies while making a product. Since energy is always constant, it is not
always necessarily 100% transformed into other produces. For example an
exothermic (ΔH<0) reaction is when reactants react with each other, to produce a
product and heat. An example of this is combustion.
An endothermic (ΔH>0) reaction is when the reactants take heat into the system to
produce necessary bonds to produce the product. An example of this is
photosynthesis.
The energy either released or absorbed in the system is called the heat of the
reaction. This is also called the enthalpy, given by a ΔH
ΔH = E(products) - E(reactants)
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Activation energy is the energy required to break the bonds in the reactants. The
enthalpy is the amount either given out to the environment or taken into producing
the products.
Collision theory
The collision theory helps us visualise how chemical reactions react. It is a theory
that states that the collision between two chemicals only occur when two conditions
are met. The first condition being that the reactants are in the correct orientation to
react and the second is that they have enough energy to react, that is the activation
energy.
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This can be done via crushing the solid up. This expose more surface area of the
solid to other reactants to perform a reaction. Hence, increase the rate of reaction.
The increase in particles in the reaction allows the frequency of the reaction to
increase, hence making the reaction fasters.
For gases, increasing the pressure raises the concentration of gas molecules,
causing more frequent collisions.
Increasing temperature
As you increase the temperature, you are providing more energy to the particles,
hence making them move faster, increasing the number of particles over the
activation energy, resulting in an increase in collision rates.
Catalysts
They act as a platform for the chemicals/reacts to bind and react to without actually
using the catalyst itself. It essentially (the catalyst) breaks the individual reactant
bonds, and rebonds the reactants together to form the products. This results in a
lower activation energy required to have a reaction. They also provide alternative
reaction pathway.
Homogeneous catalysts are catalyst in the same state as the reactants (eg. H2SO4
speeding the reaction to make an ester).
Heterogeneous catalysts are catalyst in a different state was the reactants (eg. car
diffusers)
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Majority of the reactions studied are reacting forward and backwards simultaneously.
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Equilibrium constant
2A + 4B → 2AB + 2B (g)
Coefficient of product
[Product]
Kc = [Reactants]
Coef ficient of reactants
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2 2
−2
Kc = [AB]2
[B]
[A] [B]
4 M
- With a K value between 10^-4 and 10^4, there will be significant amounts of
reactants and products present at equilibrium
- If K is larger (>10^4), the mixture will consist of mostly products, with small
amounts of reactants
- If K is smaller (<10^-4), the mixture will consist of mostly reactants, with small
amounts of products.
The following rules utilise the Le Chatelier’s principle, stating that “If an equilibrium
system is subjected to a change, the system will adjust itself to partially oppose the
effect of the change.” Now let’s apply it
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Increasing in ammonia causes the system to push the reaction backwards, forming
more N2 and H2 due to the breaking of NH3.
As pressure is increased, the system undergoes a net back reaction, meaning that
the equilibrium moves in the direction that produces fewer particles and reduces the
pressure (by decreasing the amount where there is more particles).
Adding an inert gas increases the pressure of the container. Since it is inert, nothing
changes, hence the equilibrium is the same as before.
Dilution
When you dilute the solution by adding water, it pushes the system to equilibrium
again. However now the reaction favors the side with more particles since it wants
to get back to that stable exchange of particles.
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Catalysts
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Acidity constants
[H3O+][Conjugate base]
Ka = [Acid]
Buffers
Buffers is the term given to a solution that can absorb the addition of acids of bases
with little to no change in the overall pH. This occurs when there is significant
amounts of both the weak acid and its conjugate base.
Buffers are usually amphiprotic systems that can donate or accept H+ ions to resist
changes to pH
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Indicators
An indicator is a weak acid which will change color when they either accept or
donate H+ ions
Use the data booklet (page 11) to work out the pH when you have a solution which a
concentration is given with the acid equilibrium formula:
[H3O+][Conjugate base]
Ka = [Acid]
2
[H3O+]
Ka = [Acid]
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Superphosphate
- Used in fertilisers, allows the conversion of insoluble calcium to soluble for
plants.
Strong acid
Dehydrating agent
Oxidant
Corrosive
Colourless
Dense
High boiling point
Electrolyte
Diprotic
- Fertilisers ((NH4)2SO4)
- Remove oxide from Fe rust
- Product of HCl
- Production of explosives
- Bleaching of properties
- Catalyst
- Batteries
- Production of drugs
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Molten sulfur (pure) is sprayed in a furnace with hot air to produce sulfur dioxide gas.
The temperature can reach up to 1000 degrees celsius so that sulfur can be in
constant molten form.
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Sulfur dioxide gas is oxidised to sulfur trioxide gas by oxygen, using vanadium (V)
oxide as a catalyst.
This all happens in a container called the converter. The sulfur dioxide passes
through trays of loosely packed porous pellets of the catalyst, then goes through a
heat exchange, then into another set of catalyst trays. The converter is maintained
between 400-500 degrees with a pressure of 1 atm. This process eventually turns
sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide.
Sulfur reacts with water to form sulfuric acid, but it is a dangerous and violent
reaction, hence not used. Another way is to pass the sulfur trioxide into concentrated
sulfuric acid in an absorption tower. This essentially creates oleum (H2S2O7). This
oleum mixture is then mixed with water to produce sulfuric acid.
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Supplying Energy
Energy can be found from most things. In Australia, the most predominant energy
source we use is fossil fuels. However, fossil fuels are classed as non-renewable
fuel sources, hence, we need a different source of energy supplied for our everyday
usage. Converting coal to electricity is around 45%. That’s 55% of the energy lost
along the line!
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Batteries
Batteries are portable devices which generate electricity via chemical reactions.
Primary battery cells are the types you use everyday which does not have the
capability to recharge, such as heavy duty cells. These batteries are not
rechargeable due to the fact that the products from the chemical reaction to do stay
in contact with the electrodes that produced them,hence they can not convert back
into their original states.
Secondary battery cells are the types which are usually more expensive than the
primary battery cells due to their ability to recharge.The products and the electrodes
are in contact with each other, hence have the ability to accept electrons to recharge.
Fuel cells are a type of battery which have a constant supply of reactants to keep
producing electricity.
- The reaction in these cells are called galvanic reactions and they follow the
electrochemical series (ECS) in your data booklet.
- Only a spontaneous reaction can occur to be called galvanic reactions.
- To determine if it’s spontaneous, the oxidant must be on top of the reductant
(BE CAREFUL OF THE STATES)
- Think of it like this, if you draw two circles around the reactants and draw a
line between them, from the higher circle, can a ball roll along the line you’ve
drawn? (assuming gravity is down towards the Lithium)
- If yes, spontaneous
- If no, non- spontaneous
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Fuel cells
- Electron flow
- Electrodes labelled, name and symbol (AN OIL RIG CAT)
- Salt bridge flow
- Half equation at each cell
- Overall equation
- EMF created (E0)
Electrolysis
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Alkaline solution
Remember when we are balancing half equations, we usually add H2O and H+ to
either side to balance? That was only for acidic solution. So what do we do when
they say alkaline? Well we replacing adding H+ with OH-
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We use a neat device to measure heat created from a reaction. We use a device
called the bomb calorimeter. It isn’t what you think!
First, we need to calibrate the device. We have a number called the calibration factor
which is the number we need to fine for a specific bomb calorimeter. This is done by,
reacting a known amount of sample (which the enthalpy is given in the Data Booklet)
calculate the energy released and using the following equation
E(J) = C.F(J/C) x ΔT
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