Little Johnny had a drink
But now he'll drink no more
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
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- Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:14 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
-What do you call a tooth in a glass of water? A one molar solution.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:38 pm
- Forum: Arrhenius Equation, Activation Energies, Catalysts
- Topic: 15.63
- Replies: 1
- Views: 314
15.63
Can someone please explain where the solution manual got the -.59 from?
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:02 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Question: What's a pirate's favorite element?
Answer: Gold (Bet you thought I was gonna say Arrrgon)
Answer: Gold (Bet you thought I was gonna say Arrrgon)
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:58 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
I told a joke to a guy named Helium, he didn't react.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Second Order Reactions
- Topic: 15.35a
- Replies: 1
- Views: 412
15.35a
Can someone explain how the solution manual got 1/A = 16/Ao?
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:50 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Q: What is a cation afraid of?
A: A dogion.
A: A dogion.
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:41 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder? "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees."
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: General Rate Laws
- Topic: 15.15
- Replies: 2
- Views: 405
15.15
Would the answer to this problem be considered to be a second order because it relies on both of the concentrations or would it be a first order because both concentrations are first order?
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Q: What element is a girl's future best friend?
A: Carbon.
A: Carbon.
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:37 am
- Forum: Galvanic/Voltaic Cells, Calculating Standard Cell Potentials, Cell Diagrams
- Topic: Strongly Reducing Metals
- Replies: 5
- Views: 686
Strongly Reducing Metals
How can we determine how strong of reducing agent metals are?
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:45 pm
- Forum: Balancing Redox Reactions
- Topic: Acidic and Basic Solution
- Replies: 3
- Views: 504
Acidic and Basic Solution
How do we know if the redox reaction is occuring in acidic or basic solution?
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:33 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Old Chemists Never Die, They Just Reach Equilibrium
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:30 am
- Forum: Balancing Redox Reactions
- Topic: Balancing Half Reactions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 421
Balancing Half Reactions
How do we know when to add H20 or H+ to the half reactions?
For example in 14.3 part a
They added 5H20 to the reactants and 10H+ to the products. I'm not sure where they got these numbers from.
For example in 14.3 part a
They added 5H20 to the reactants and 10H+ to the products. I'm not sure where they got these numbers from.
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:46 am
- Forum: Gibbs Free Energy Concepts and Calculations
- Topic: 11.111
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1687
11.111
I was wondering if someone could explain to how they solved for DeltaG2, I understand the setup of the problem but I'm not sure how they got rid of e in one of the very last steps.
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Sunday Midterm Review Session Worksheet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 689
Sunday Midterm Review Session Worksheet
Hi can someone please link the worksheet that we are suppose to printout for today's review session, I can't find it.
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:15 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Since, Valentine's Day is coming up, here's a nice Chemistry Pick-Up Line
Are you made of copper and tellurium? Because you're CuTe.
Are you made of copper and tellurium? Because you're CuTe.
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:12 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Why does hamburger yield lower energy than steak? Because it's in the ground state.
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: Entropy Changes Due to Changes in Volume and Temperature
- Topic: Isothermal and Isovolumetric Calculations [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 1
- Views: 350
Isothermal and Isovolumetric Calculations [ENDORSED]
Can someone explain when we would need to calculate both isothermal and isovolumetric calculations and add the two? like what should the question be stating in order for us to know that we would need to combine these two processes.
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:32 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate!
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:29 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Old chemists never die, they just stop reacting.
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Gibbs Free Energy Concepts and Calculations
- Topic: A spontaneous reaction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 985
A spontaneous reaction
Could someone explain to me what a spontaneous reaction is and possibly use the picture that the professor drew last friday I believe (the picture was of something going up a hill, if I remember correctly)
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:55 pm
- Forum: Entropy Changes Due to Changes in Volume and Temperature
- Topic: Chapter 9, Question 7
- Replies: 2
- Views: 433
Chapter 9, Question 7
Can someone explain to me why we had to multiply the gas constant by 5/2 and 3/2?
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Q: Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero?
A: He's 0K now
A: He's 0K now
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:49 pm
- Forum: Heat Capacities, Calorimeters & Calorimetry Calculations
- Topic: exothermic vs endothermic [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1149
Re: exothermic vs endothermic [ENDORSED]
In most part problems, the water is usually seen as the surrounding but it's like the person above said, it all depends on what the question is describing
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: Hess's Law [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 916
Re: Hess's Law [ENDORSED]
For the most part, we are usually given anything that is needed to solve that problem whether directly or indirectly given to us.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:31 am
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: Calculating the Initial Temperature Of An Object
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1004
Calculating the Initial Temperature Of An Object
A 248 g piece of copper is dropped into 390ml of water at 22.6C. The final temperature of the water is 39.9C. Can someone explain how we would calculate the initial temperature of the copper piece?
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:22 am
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: R Constant
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
R Constant
Can someone explain when to use .08206 value vs the 8.314 value
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: 8.65
- Replies: 2
- Views: 325
8.65
If the reaction we want is N2 + 5/2 O2 --> N205,
then why does the solution stop at 2NO + (3/2)O2 --> N205
I'm wondering about the unequal amount of oxygen
then why does the solution stop at 2NO + (3/2)O2 --> N205
I'm wondering about the unequal amount of oxygen
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: 8.51 [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 358
8.51 [ENDORSED]
Can someone explain to me how to find the enthalpies of formation for the products, the solutions manual shows -393.51kj/mol for CO2 but I'm unsure as to how they got that number
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:33 am
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: Steam Burning
- Replies: 7
- Views: 945
Re: Steam Burning
Steam burns more because it is undergoing a phase change as a result of reacting with your skin and the phase change from vapor to liquid causes heat to be released
I found this link to be helpful
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1322
I found this link to be helpful
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1322
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:23 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
I would never try to poison you...
Now eat your Pb and Jelly sandwich
Now eat your Pb and Jelly sandwich
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:19 am
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 3589130
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Don't tell jokes to noble gases
You'll get no reaction
You'll get no reaction
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:19 am
- Forum: Applying Le Chatelier's Principle to Changes in Chemical & Physical Conditions
- Topic: Endothermic v. Exothermic Reactions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2659
Re: Endothermic v. Exothermic Reactions
In an endothermic reaction the system absorbs energy(delta H>0), where as in exothermic reactions heat is released(delta H<0). If you click on this link http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/thermo/faq/exothermic-endothermic-examples.shtml , it will take you several examples of each type of r...
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:11 am
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: LaKretz Building [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 547
LaKretz Building [ENDORSED]
Can someone tell me where the LaKretz Building is located so that I know where to go for the review sessions today and final tomorrow
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:35 am
- Forum: Calculating pH or pOH for Strong & Weak Acids & Bases
- Topic: pH and pOH
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1409
Re: pH and pOH
pH represents the concentration of H+ while pOH is a measure of concentration of OH-. You would calculate the value by taking the -log of concentration of the substance.
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:28 am
- Forum: Sigma & Pi Bonds
- Topic: Sigma and pi
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1603
Re: Sigma and pi
Yes, every first bond is a sigma bond and the rest of the bond that follow(like the 2nd bond in a double bond) are pi bonds.
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:17 pm
- Forum: Hybridization
- Topic: Pi Bonds vs. Sigma Bonds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1079
Re: Pi Bonds vs. Sigma Bonds
The first bonds are known as sigma bonds and the rest of the bonds are pi bonds. For example, when there is a triple bond, the first is a sigma bond and the 2nd and 3rd bonds are pi bonds.
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:11 pm
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: Seesaw molecular shape
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3440
Seesaw molecular shape
I was wondering if anyone could explain how we know if a compound has the seesaw molecular shape
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: Naming
- Topic: Roman Numerals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2090
Re: Roman Numerals
There would not be negative roman numerals because you would only use the roman numerals to describe the different oxidation state of that transition metal.
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:40 pm
- Forum: Shape, Structure, Coordination Number, Ligands
- Topic: Chelates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 399
Re: Chelates
A chelate is a complex that contains one more ligands that form a ring of atoms with the central metal atom.
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:15 pm
- Forum: DeBroglie Equation
- Topic: De Broglie Equation [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 761
Re: De Broglie Equation [ENDORSED]
No you would not use DeBroglie Equation to find the energy of a photon because the equation gives you the wavelength for particles of mass. To find the Energy of A photon you would the equation E=hv, you can derive v from the formula c = lambda * frequency (v)
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:10 pm
- Forum: Empirical & Molecular Formulas
- Topic: Practice Midterm Question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 647
Re: Practice Midterm Question
If you are given the percentages of each element. You can just use percentages as grams because the empirical formula is relative to the number of atoms. You would then divide the number of grams by the molar mass of each element to get moles. Then divide by lowest number of moles that you got and u...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 5:03 pm
- Forum: Wave Functions and s-, p-, d-, f- Orbitals
- Topic: d and s blocks
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2208
Re: d and s blocks
The d block is written before the s block because the d block is lower in energy. Since electron configurations are written based on increasing energy d would always come before s.
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 4:57 pm
- Forum: Lewis Structures
- Topic: Biradical vs Lone Pair
- Replies: 3
- Views: 495
Re: Biradical vs Lone Pair
Lone pair refers to valence e- that aren't shared with another atom. Biradical refers two unpaired electrons
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:56 pm
- Forum: Formal Charge and Oxidation Numbers
- Topic: Quick Question about SO4
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1333
Re: Quick Question about SO4
Calculating the formal charge of the each element and you add them up to determine how stable a molecule is.
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: Significant Figures
- Topic: 300 vs 300. [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4737
Re: 300 vs 300. [ENDORSED]
Yes, 300. has 3 sig figs because of the decimal which makes the zeros significant. Whereas the zeros in 300 are just seen as placeholders.
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:53 pm
- Forum: Properties of Light
- Topic: Color of visible light
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1248
Re: Color of visible light
No we would not be expected to know the specific color. You would however be expected to know the range of the spectrum of colors (red-700nm and 400nm)
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Wave Functions and s-, p-, d-, f- Orbitals
- Topic: Angular Momentum Quantum Number [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 621
Re: Angular Momentum Quantum Number [ENDORSED]
The angular momentum quantum number describes the shape the orbital where an electron is found. As for calculations. The L helps us calculate orbital angular momentum which is the rate that the electron moves around the nucleus. That formula is (l(l+1))^1/2*(h/2pi)
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 5:10 pm
- Forum: Properties of Electrons
- Topic: Energy Levels
- Replies: 3
- Views: 573
Energy Levels
I was wondering if it was possible for the energy levels to move down and if or how that would affect the Formula En= -hR/n^2
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: Properties of Light
- Topic: Photons
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Re: Photons
Photons are small particles of light that are said be massless and have both wavelike properties which is shown in the diffraction experiment and also contains particle properties which can seen in the photoelectric experiment.
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: Limiting Reactant Calculations
- Topic: Limiting Reactant Calculations [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1588
Re: Limiting Reactant Calculations [ENDORSED]
Your next step would be to convert the grams of reactant into moles. You would do this by dividing the grams given to you by the molar mass of the reactant. From then you would need to divided the number moles by the coefficient in front of the particular reactant. Then whichever reactant has the le...
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:33 pm
- Forum: Molarity, Solutions, Dilutions
- Topic: Molarity unit [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1660
Re: Molarity unit [ENDORSED]
The standard units for molarity are mol/L so I would suggest using those units. If a problem for some reason asks you for Molarity in terms of mol/ml you can always convert the Liters.