CHEMISTRY COMMUNITY

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The system starts at 85C, and since you are given the standard enthalpy at 100C, you have to use 3 different types of deltaS in this problem: the change in entropy when you go from 85C to 100C, the deltaS at 100C, and then the deltaS when you go from 100C to 85C. You have to go through all these ste...

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“If SO2F2 adopts a positionally disordered arrangement in its crystal form, what might its molar residual entropy be?” I attemoted this problem by first solving for W so I could use it in S = kBlnW, in which there are 6 different microstates possible for the atoms, but got stuck on how many atoms I ...

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What was Avogadro’s favorite sport?
Golf, because he always got a mole-in-one.

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What did the chemist say when he found two isotopes of helium?
HeHe

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The question is “A constant-volume calorimeter was calibrated by carrying out a reaction known to release 3.50 kJ of heat in .200L of solution in the calorimeter (q = -3.50 kJ), resulting in a temperature rise of 7.32 C. In a subsequent experiment, 100.0 mL of .200 M HBr(aq) and 100.0 mL of KOH(aq) ...

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What is Iron Man's gender?
Fe Male

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Why did chlorine get in trouble for the acid attack?
It was guilt by dissociation.

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What did the pregnant scientist say at the end of her electrolysis experiment?
"My water broke"

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Hopefully we will have review sessions this quarter just like we did for Lavelle's 14A classes last quarter. If anything, he will announce it in the next class.

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What is CH2O?
Seawater.

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Whats the molecular formula for coffee?
CoFe2

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Why was the mole of oxygen excited when he left the singles bar?
He got Avogadro's number.

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When the volume is halved for a system at equilibrium that contains 1.85 M H2, 1.36 M N2, and 2.91e-3 M NH3 with an initial Kc at 9.83e-7, how can you determine the new concentrations for N2, H2, and NH3?

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I'm a bit confused on when we need to apply the quadratic formula and use the ICE table. How can we tell when to use this?

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Did you hear about the joke about Cobalt, Radon, and Yttrium? It was so CoRnY.

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I tried writing a joke about the periodic table, but I wasn't in my element.

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Two chemists walk into a bar. One says, "I'll have an H2O." The second one says "I'll have an H2O too." The second chemist dies.

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When do you know whether to place the lone pairs on the equatorial axis instead of the axial axis? For example, for ICL3 which has the VSEPR formula AX3E2, why do we place the two lone pairs on the equatorial axis (resulting in T-shaped molecule) instead of placing them opposite of the other on the ...

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You don’t need to use the prefix mono-,since the name of the molecule alone should imply that there is only one molecule. For example, if there was a one amine in the coordination complex, you would just say “amine-“ instead of “monoamine-“ as they both mean the same thing.

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How do you determine which acids are stronger or weaker? For example, between CF3COOH, CH3COOH, and C(CH3)3COOH?

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Using these rules, does that mean that BrO is a stronger acid than IO as well?

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Due to the shape of oxalate, it can only bind in two places. Referring to the last image posted, its highly unlikely that the other two oxygens can bend to bind with the TM in the center.

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I believe that a chelate is a coordination compound with a polydentate ligand.

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How can you tell which compound will have a higher boiling point? For example, between the two molecules H2S and H2Se?

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I think < 109.5 should be used, since its easier to make a mistake when memorizing all of those numbers, but in the end I don't think it actually matters.

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In determining which molecules have higher polarizing power, what is more significant their charge or their size? For example what is the process we take to determine Rb+ has a higher polarizing power than Sr2+? Rb+ actually has a lower polarizing power than Sr2+. Since Sr2+ has a higher charge tha...

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You can generally determine the bond angles if you know the shape too. For example if you know the shape is trigonal planar, then you can just divide 360 by 3 and get 120 degrees. This also applies to the trigonal bipyramidal, as that is essentially a trigonal planar shape intersected with a linear ...

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There is less overlap in a pi bond than a sigma bond, since the orbitals are parallel to each other. Since there is more overlap in a sigma bond, sigma bonds are stronger than pi bonds.

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What kind of fish is made up of sodium?
2 Na.

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What kind of dogs do chemists have?
Laboratory Retrievers.

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Due to the resonance structures, the average of the bond lengths of the different structures should have blended together, so you estimate the bond length between 120 and 140, and that's how you get around 130.

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^Exactly. Higher melting points indicate more stability so this explains the example given in class: GC base pairs in DNA are more stable than AT base pairs. So does this mean GC base pairs have stronger bonds than AT base pairs? Yes, because G-C base pairs have three hydrogen bonds rather than two...

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For a hydrogen bond to form a hydrogen must have a partial positive charge from being bonded to a atom with higher electronegativity (like N, O, or F). The partially positive hydrogen is then attracted to a partially charged negative atom. For example in the case of water, since H is bonded to O whi...

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What causes an induced-dipole? What is an example of an induced-dipole between two molecules?

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Silver walks up to Gold in a bar and says, “AU, get out of here!”

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Whats the chemical formula for banana?
BaNa2.

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On the midterm review worksheet, could someone explain how to draw the lewis structure for XeO2F2? Xe should be the center atom, with 2 F's and 2 O's attached to it. The total number of electrons should be 34e-, so there should be one bond between Xe and the F's, and each F should have 3 lone pairs...

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Whats the difference between chemistry and cooking? In chemistry you never lick the spoon.

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Why did the white bear dissolve in water? Because it was polar.

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What is a cation scared of? A dogion.

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I don't think it matters, it just symbolizes the direction of the electron's spin. The +/- of the 1/2 denotes the direction of the spin of the electron, and has no relation to the energy level of it.

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How do you determine the value for repulsion between the two electrons in the expression for the colombic potential energy of an atom?

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which version of textbook do you have? I have the 6th edition and 2.19b asks for "How many values of m are allowed for an electron in a 6d-subshell?" to which the answer would be m= -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 since l=3 as the electron is in a d-orbital.

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Oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, sodium, and phosphorous walk into a bar.
"OH SNaP!" said the bartender.

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What did the scientist say when she found two isotopes of helium?
HeHe.

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One guacamole is 6.022x10^23 guaca; also known as Avacado's constant.

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Will we be given the molar mass of elements on the exam? or will we have to memorize the molar masses of the elements? I noticed that in the module assessments we were given the molar mass for some of the elements, but not all.

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I'm a bit confused on this problem:
Use the Rydberg formula for atomic hydrogen to calculate the wavelength of radiation generated by the transition from n = 4 to n = 2.
In this problem, would 4 be considered n1 and 2 be n2? Or should it be the other way around to avoid any negative values?

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This is the formula for the kinetic energy of an electron. m(e-) is the mass of the electron, and v(e-) stands for the velocity of the electron.

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You might have to, since it appears in some of the homework questions from week 1. Calculating the percent yield is simple, you just need to divide the actual yield over the theoretical yield and multiply that by 100%.

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In the textbook it states that reagents are the chemicals available in a laboratory. When a reagent is being used in a particular reaction it is called a reactant.

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You need three posts per week, not one post per week.

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Q: What do you call a clown in prison?
A: A silicon.

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