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Some catalysts provide a way for the reacting species to undergo productive collisions more frequently, therefore less energy is needed to initiate the reaction. (Same thing as lowering the activation energy).

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The flow of electrons is not the same as the "flow" of the Cu2+. The electrons will flow towards the side with higher concentration of Cu2+ so that the copper ions there can get reduced to form Cu(s) and therefore reducing the concentration of Cu2+ in that cell.

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Yes because whatever entropy the system loses is gained by the surroundings, so the entropy change of the universe is zero.

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Use ln, ln is used in the integrated law for a reason because it makes life easier for you. If you convert it to log then you 'll go through an extra step that you never needed to do in the first place.

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Since the rate of reaction and also activation energy depends on successful collision of molecules in the correct orientation, we can think of catalysts as things that helps the reactants collide more frequently in the correct orientation. Some catalyst such as many metals actually allow reactants t...

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Whenever you see a kinetics question that involves temperature change, you're most likely gonna use the Arrhenius equation.

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A regular first order reaction is just what it is. A pseudo first order reaction means that the reaction is not actually first order because there are other reactants whose concentration will affect the rate of reaction. However, we can calculate what is the order of reaction for a certain reactant ...

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Normally we use very little catalyst for a particular reaction. If The entire surface of the catalyst is covered with reacting reactants, then no matter what is the concentration of the reactant, the rate will not increase.

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The unit of the rate of reaction is mol•L^-1•S^-1, so you just have to manipulate the unit of K so that when put into the equation will give you mol•L^-1•S^-1.

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Yes because the reactants would be decreasing, to get a positive value for rate of reaction we have to have a negative sign ahead of it.

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Kinetically stable just means that the reaction from diamond to graphite is too slow to be accounted for normally.

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Knowing the initial rate is also important because it allows us to analyse how the reaction mechanism works and that would help us in understanding the rate of reaction after the initial time.

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The species that is oxidized is the reduction agent, the one that is reduced is the oxidizing agent. This is because if something oxidizes another thing, it must be itself reduced, vice versa.

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I am of the impression that there is no major difference between the two, I may be wrong though.

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The above are true but we have to also take note that water dissociates into H+ and OH- ions, during electrolysis, they may be discharged.

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Oxidation numbers of O in a compound is most commonly -2, however, in peroxides like H2O2, the oxidation number of oxygen will be different. In this case, it is -1.

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If the concentration of H+ is very high, it may be preferentially reduced to H2 gas. Remember that the cell potential depends on the concentration of the solution.

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I don't think so, some half reactions do not involve conducting metals at all. One such reaction would be the standard hydrogen electrode. Between half reactions though, a wire is needed to transfer the charges from one electrode to the other.

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A gas is liquefied in a container due to high pressure, why is there heat transferred if there is now a hole in the container and the pressurized liquid escapes as a gas?

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To add on, spontaneous reactions don't just happen. Spontaneous reactions means that products are at a lower energy level than the reactants. To start the reaction though, you might need activation energy. When the activation energy is supplied, the reaction continues to the end. For example, a spar...

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When G is at minimum, the reaction is at equilibrium so the system shouldn't have any tendency to do work spontaneously.

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I think that for the purpose of our class, we can think of work done by a system to be a force pushing against the system. If it's a gas, the work done on a system will most likely cause a contraction of the gas.

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Adding more substance in a system will increase the internal energy of the system, since the added amount of substance will have their own energy, that energy is added to the original system.

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Irreversible means that the direction of expansion/contraction will not be changes by a tiny amount of change in external pressure. For example, if the gas of 1 atm is expanding against an external surrounding of 1 atm, if the outside pressure increases even a little bit, the gas will go from expand...

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All matter have their own internal energy, removing a unit of matter from a system means removing part of the internal energy that the system has.

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ΔU= q+w does not necessarily mean that q and w are positive, they can take on negative values as well. The sum of the two, regardless of them being positive or negative will be the change in internal energy of the system.

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Use for volume and atm for pressure. Even if the question gives you a pressure unit that is not in atm, converting to atm might help make answering easier. The conversion between the various pressure units will be on the formula sheet.

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The heat supplied to a substance when the substance is at melting/boiling point will go towards breaking the inter-molecular/atomic bonds. Although there are many kind of bonds between molecules such as H Bonds, London Forces, Ionic bonds etc, all of them are bonds. Breaking of bonds is an endotherm...

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In the coil of the fridge no matter exits or enter the system but energy can enter/exit the system. In fact it is the job of the coolant to carry heat out of the fridge in order to cool the inside of the fridge.

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Steam burns more because it has to first condense into liquid water when it comes to contact with your skin. The heat released from the condensation is added to the heat released from cooling the liquid water from 100 degree to your body temperature. So more heat is released by steam at 100 degrees ...

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Re: catalyst

Re: Question 14.41

Re: reversible system

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Heat transfer to a liquefied gas.

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