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Water, Thermodynamics and pH
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Biochemistry
Undergraduate 1
01/05/2013

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What are the 5 properties of water?
Definition
1)Polar
2)Liquid at high temperature
3)Ability to form hydrogen bonds with itself
4)Conducts electricity
5)Dissolves molecules
Term
What is flux?
Definition
The amount of something per unit of time
Term
What is a Mole?
Definition
The number of atoms in a molecule compared to the number of atoms in carbon-12
Term
What is concentration?
Definition
Amount of something per unit of volume
Term
How are the boiling and freezing point of water affected by dissolved ions.
Definition
Boiling point increases and freezing point decreases
Term
What is osmolarity?
Definition
Amount of ions per unit of volume
Term
How does a solution with high osmolarity affect cells?
Definition
They shrink
Term
How does a solution with low osmolarity affect cells?
Definition
They burst
Term
How do plants and bacteria cells respond to the changing osmolarity of solutions?
Definition
They have a cell wall to keep the internal osmolarity seperate
Term
How do amoebas respond to the changing osmolarity of solutions?
Definition
They have a contractile vacuole that expels water from the cell body
Term
Heat is a type of _______ energy?
Definition
Kinetic
Term
What three things affect rate of reaction?
Definition
Heat, surface area and concentration
Term
What two things can cause a decomposition?
Definition
Heat or radiation
Term
What makes something a first order reaction?
Definition
The concentration is directly proportional to the rate
Term
What makes something a first order reaction?
Definition
The concentration is equal to half the rate
Term
What are the six different kinds of force?
Definition
Kinetic, Heat, Chemical, Nuclear, Gravitational, Electrical
Term
What is the lowest form of energy?
Definition
Heat
Term
Bond energy is also know as ______ energy?
Definition
Chemical
Term
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
Definition
Energy is conserved
Term
What two equations go with the first law of thermodynamics?
Definition
Delta U = Q +W
Delta H = Delta U +P. Delta V
Term
What does U mean in an equation?
Definition
Internal energy
Term
What does Q mean in an equation?
Definition
Heat energy
Term
What does W mean in an equation?
Definition
Work
Term
What does H mean in an equation?
Definition
Enthalpy
Term
What does P mean in an equation?
Definition
Pressure
Term
What does V mean in an equation?
Definition
Work and Heat energy
Term
What is entropy?
Definition
The amount of disorder in a system
Term
What is the third law of thermodynamics?
Definition
The molecule with the lowest entropy is a perfect ionic crystal at absolute zero
Term
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
Definition
Disorder always increases in an isolated system
Term
What equation goes with the third law of thermodynamics?
Definition
DeltaG = Delta H - T.Delta S
Term
What does G mean in an equation?
Definition
Gibbs free energy
Term
What does T mean in an equation?
Definition
Time and Temperature
Term
What does S mean in an equation?
Definition
Entropy
Term
If Gibbs free energy is zero or below the reaction is said to be what?
Definition
Spontaenous
Term
What is an exponent?
Definition
X10 to the power of something
Term
Adding exponents is equal to what?
Definition
Multiplication
Term
Subtracting exponents is equal to what?
Definition
Divisions
Term
Logarthms are also what?
Definition
Exponents
Term
If log10 (x) = Y then what is x?
Definition
X = 10 to the power of Y
Term
If log e (x) = Y then what is x?
Definition
X = e to the power of Y
Term
Water exists in equilibrium between which two molecules?
Definition
H20 and H30+
Term
What is the equation for Keq
Definition
Keq = Products/Reactants
Term
What does Keq stand for?
Definition
Equilibrium constant
Term
What is the value for Kw
Definition
10 to the power of -14
Term
What does Kw stand for?
Definition
The ionic product of water
Term
What is pH?
Definition
The negative log of the hydrogen ions
Term
What is the pH equation?
Definition
pH = -log(H+)
Term
What is the importance of pH?
Definition
If the pH is known predictions about how molecules behave can be made more easily
Term
What is Ka?
Definition
Acid equilibrium constant
Term
What is the equation for Ka?
Definition
Ka = ((H+) X (A-))/(HA)
Term
What is the equation for pKa?
Definition
pKa= -log(Ka)
Term
What is pKa?
Definition
The -log of the Ka value
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What is the Henderson-Hasselbach equation?
Definition
pH = pKa + log10 ([A-]/[HA])
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