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Chemistry Chapters 1-3 and parts of 4
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Chemistry
Undergraduate 1
10/05/2010

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Define scientific law
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A brief statement that summarizes paswt observations and predicts future ones.
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Define hypothesis
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A tentative interpretation or explanation of the observations.
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Define theory
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One or more well-established hypothesis that is a model for the way nature is and tries to explain not merely what nature does, but why.
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Define scientific method
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The way research is done, it starts with an observation then to a hypothesis, then experimental test, and can lead to scientific laws or theories if the same results are produce from similar experiments.
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What are the states of matter?
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Solid, liquid, gas, and aqueous.
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What are elements? What are compounds?
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Elements are substances that cannot be broken down into simplier substances. Compounds are a substance composed of two or more elements in fixed, definite proportions.
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What is a homogeneous mixture? What is a heterogeneous mixture?
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Homogeneous mixtures have the same composition throughout the mixture. Heterogenous mixtures have different composition throughout the mixture.
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What are chemical properties? What are physical properties?
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Chemical properties are properties displayed only by changing its composition via chemical change. Physical property is one that a substance displays without changing its composition.
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What is a chemical change? What is a physical change?
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Chemical change are changes that alter the composition of matter. Physical change are changes that only change that alter the state or appearance of the object, not the composition.
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Name the diatomic elements
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Bromide, oxygen, fluorine, iodine, nitrogen, chlorine, hydrogen

 

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What is the difference between accuracy and precision?
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Accuracy is how close the results are to what is given as the expected result. Precision is how close the results are to each other.
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1mL= x cmx
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1 cm 3
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1 L = x cmx = x mL
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1 cm3= 1000 mL = 1L
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Define density
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Density= Mass/Volume
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Define the law of definite proportion.
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All samples of a given compound, regardless of their source or how they were prepared, have the same proportions of their constituent elements.
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Define the Law of Multiple Proportion.
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When two elements form two different compounds, the masses of the element B that combine with 1g of the element A can be expressed as a ratio of a small whole number.
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Define the Law of Conservation of Mass.
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When a chemical reaction takes place, the total mass of the substance involved in the reaction does not change.
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Define the Law of Conservation of Energy
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Energy is neither created nor destroyed, however it can change form (from potential to thermal)
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The number of protons is defined as...
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the atomic number
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The number of neutrons in an element is given by..
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subtracting the number of protons from the mass number
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The number of electrons is equal to...
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the number of protons
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