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- Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:48 pm
- Forum: General Rate Laws
- Topic: Microscopic Reversibility [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 1
- Views: 461
Re: Microscopic Reversibility [ENDORSED]
For our purposes, I think microscopic reversibility is most important when thinking about the pre-equilibrium approach to determining rate laws. Microscopic reversibility refers to the fact that, in a multi-step reaction, the fast steps are occurring at about equilibrium if followed by a slow step. ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:40 pm
- Forum: Arrhenius Equation, Activation Energies, Catalysts
- Topic: Activated structure [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 294
Re: Activated structure [ENDORSED]
The activated structure is also known as the transition state and it's the energy peak on a reaction graph. Once the sufficient activation energy is input into the reactants, they enter the transition state and the reaction can progress to the products. This is important when thinking about catalyst...
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: Arrhenius Equation, Activation Energies, Catalysts
- Topic: Homogenous/Heterogeneous Catalysts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 293
Re: Homogenous/Heterogeneous Catalysts
Also, don't get tripped up if they mention adsorption alongside heterogeneous catalysts. It's probably not a typo, it's just a fancy way to describe the relationship between reactants and catalysts in different states (specifically reactants on a solid catalyst). I think heterogeneous might also app...
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: Method of Initial Rates (To Determine n and k)
- Topic: Negative Order
- Replies: 4
- Views: 774
Re: Negative Order
I think a negative order indicates that a reactant is involved in a reaction, but actually slows the reaction rate as its concentration increases. I think one example of a reactant is H+, because in some reactions it's involved in, a higher H+ concentration makes the solution more acidic which could...
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Rate Laws
- Topic: Units pseudo rate law
- Replies: 2
- Views: 260
Re: Units pseudo rate law
So if it's a pseudo first order reaction, treat it as if its just a normal first order reaction to find the units and so on.
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:36 pm
- Forum: Kinetics vs. Thermodynamics Controlling a Reaction
- Topic: Reaction Rate vs Rate of Consumption/Formation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 396
Re: Reaction Rate vs Rate of Consumption/Formation
Also, unique rate can be found in terms of the rates of formation or consumption by dividing by the coefficients in the equation (the rate of consumption has to have its sign flipped to make it positive).
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:56 pm
- Forum: Work, Gibbs Free Energy, Cell (Redox) Potentials
- Topic: Why does reaction free energy depend on pressure and the equal constant?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 440
Re: Why does reaction free energy depend on pressure and the equal constant?
There's also the equation G=H-TS which says free energy relies on enthalphy, entropy, and temperature. Since we know enthalphy refers to the heat of a system under constant pressure, that could be the pressure connection?
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:53 pm
- Forum: Work, Gibbs Free Energy, Cell (Redox) Potentials
- Topic: Element's potentials
- Replies: 5
- Views: 615
Re: Element's potentials
From a numerical standpoint, you can look at the standard reduction potentials to determine relative reducing/oxidising strength. A lower, more negative potential means something is a stronger reducing agent and a more positive value means a stronger oxidising agent (stuff like this showed up on tes...
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:43 pm
- Forum: Balancing Redox Reactions
- Topic: Test #2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1073
Re: Test #2
You should be careful when reading the question though, because sometimes the requested redox reaction will be the reverse of what is listed in the table so you have to flip the sign before ordering them.
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:34 pm
- Forum: Galvanic/Voltaic Cells, Calculating Standard Cell Potentials, Cell Diagrams
- Topic: Reactants As Electrodes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 219
Re: Reactants As Electrodes
Generally the reactants that can be used as electrodes will be metals in their solid form because they are conductive and can be involved in the reaction without being dissolved into the solution (there are exceptions like mercury which is a liquid metal and graphite which is made of carbon).
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:30 pm
- Forum: Galvanic/Voltaic Cells, Calculating Standard Cell Potentials, Cell Diagrams
- Topic: Salt Bridge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 330
Re: Salt Bridge
If the reaction were to occur without a salt bridge, the electrons would move from one side to another then promptly stop because of the charge difference. The salt bridge equalises the charge by allowing ions to flow between the two sides without allowing any of the solution to transfer.
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: Balancing Redox Reactions
- Topic: Voltage and Balancing Redox Equations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 273
Re: Voltage and Balancing Redox Equations
Also, in a more practical sense, if we think of the cell as a battery we know we want the work done by the battery to be at a maximum and the Wmax that a cell can do will be equal to the max potential difference.
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 5:07 pm
- Forum: Entropy Changes Due to Changes in Volume and Temperature
- Topic: Equations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 380
Re: Equations
Although all the necessary equations are there, you also need to be able to rearrange equations. For example, the formula for heat capacity can be found by rearranging q=nC/\T to get nC = q/T. Some problems, like the one Dr. Lavelle did in lecture, require you to switch around the ideal gas law PV =...
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 4:52 pm
- Forum: Entropy Changes Due to Changes in Volume and Temperature
- Topic: 3 Step Entropy Change Calculations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 305
Re: 3 Step Entropy Change Calculations
There are also problems where it asks for the change in entropy for a phase change at a temperature other than its boiling/freezing point where you have to use the entropy of vaporisation or fusion at the boiling or freezing point as the middle step.
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 4:48 pm
- Forum: Entropy Changes Due to Changes in Volume and Temperature
- Topic: DeltaS= nCln(T2/T1)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1241
Re: DeltaS= nCln(T2/T1)
There are also some tricky ways that constant pressure or volume can be hinted at in the problem. For example, the question might not say constant pressure, but give you a value for enthalpy which in itself implies constant pressure. There are also problems where you have to split the entropy change...
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:09 pm
- Forum: Calculating Work of Expansion
- Topic: Derivations - Midterm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 306
Re: Derivations - Midterm
Plus, pretty much all of the equations are on the formula sheet (https://lavelle.chem.ucla.edu/wp-conten ... ations.pdf), so I think application is the main point.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: Heat Capacities, Calorimeters & Calorimetry Calculations
- Topic: MJ
- Replies: 1
- Views: 767
Re: MJ
That would be a megajoule (MJ), millijoule (mJ) uses a lower case m. Although we're unlikely to run into that unit on the test.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:59 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: What exactly is 3/2RT and when do we use it?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3950
Re: What exactly is 3/2RT and when do we use it?
I don't know if this is directly related, but 3/2R (without the T) is the specific heat capacity of a monatomic ideal gas at constant volume (Cv) which is used in entropy problems (/\S = n Cv ln(T1/T2)) which is a more practical application.
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: PΔV of Solids and Liquids
- Replies: 4
- Views: 451
Re: PΔV of Solids and Liquids
Maybe once a substance goes through a phase change, it just has a different set volume for that specific state. Like water as a liquid has a set volume which is different from its set volume as a solid, but their volumes remain constant within the state that they are in at the time.
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: Heat Capacities, Calorimeters & Calorimetry Calculations
- Topic: Reaction Constant P
- Replies: 3
- Views: 344
Re: Reaction Constant P
The formula for internal energy is U = q+w, but when pressure is constant w = -P/\V, which gives us /\U = q - P/\V. If there's a gas involved, we can use the ideal gas law PV = nRT to get /\U = q - /\nRT, where /\n is the change in moles. According to this equation, when moles increase, internal pre...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:53 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: Gibbs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 538
Re: Gibbs
Also, exergonic reactions release energy while endergonic reactions absorb energy, so you can think of the negative G value as the reaction losing energy and the positive G value as the reaction gaining energy.
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: Applying Le Chatelier's Principle to Changes in Chemical & Physical Conditions
- Topic: Change in Pressure caused by Volume
- Replies: 3
- Views: 285
Re: Change in Pressure caused by Volume
However, the equilibrium constant K doesn't change. The pressure shift only causes a change in the amount of products or reactants, not the ratio.
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:29 pm
- Forum: Applying Le Chatelier's Principle to Changes in Chemical & Physical Conditions
- Topic: Solids and Liquids for pressure change
- Replies: 3
- Views: 689
Re: Solids and Liquids for pressure change
Solids and liquids can't be compressed because they have set volumes, while gasses are able to spread out to fill whatever space they are in. Because the change in the reaction is actually a result of a change in volume, solids and liquids, whose volumes are unable to change, aren't affected by pres...
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:24 pm
- Forum: Applying Le Chatelier's Principle to Changes in Chemical & Physical Conditions
- Topic: Adding Inert Gas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4478
Re: Adding Inert Gas
A pressure change will only have an effect on a reaction if it is caused by a change in volume. If you increase pressure by reducing the volume, then the molecules within the reaction are compressed and because they want to be stable with the lowest energy, the reaction will favor whichever side has...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:15 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: Autoprotolysis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 194
Re: Autoprotolysis
Autoprotolysis refers to reactions where an amphiprotic molecule reacts with itself. The most common example is water. Water is amphiprotic because it can donate or accept a proton, this gives us the equation 2H2O <-> H3O+ + OH-. One water molecule donates a proton in the form of a hydrogen (forming...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:10 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: Conjugates
- Replies: 4
- Views: 307
Re: Conjugates
Generally, the conjugate acid or base will just be the product other than H3O+ or OH-. For example, in the equation NH4+ + H2O <-> NH3 + H3O+ NH4+ is the acid with NH3 as its conjugate base.
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: Percent Ionization
- Replies: 3
- Views: 243
Re: Percent Ionization
Then the equation for K should turn out to be a quadratic and you'd have to use the quadratic formula. The 5% approximation rule is just to make the calculations easier if the change in concentration is small enough to be negligible.
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:04 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: ICE Table
- Replies: 4
- Views: 154
Re: ICE Table
We also have no reason to believe there is already product at the start unless it is explicitly stated. If these were actual reactions we were doing in a lab, we could probably measure the initial conditions, but since it's a hypothetical problem, I don't think we can actually determine the initial ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:23 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: 5G.9c, d, e
- Replies: 2
- Views: 235
Re: 5G.9c, d, e
The ratio [O2]^3/[O3]^2 and the ratio [O3]^2/[O2]^3 factor in the coefficients from the equation which represent the actual ratio of products to reactants involved in the reaction. These ratios are also the equilibrium constants for the forward and reverse reactions and equilibrium constants are alw...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:17 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: Stability and Equilibrium Reactions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 166
Re: Stability and Equilibrium Reactions
I think the fact that a reaction is in equilibrium implies that the reaction is stable, because the forward and reverse reactions are happening constantly and keep the overall reaction at a certain ratio of products to reactants. So I guess they're all equally stable? Although I'm not really sure wh...
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: Properties & Structures of Inorganic & Organic Acids
- Topic: structure of SO2 and SO3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 334
Re: structure of SO2 and SO3
The book might be referring to a sulfite (SO3 -2) ion, where having one double bond and two single bonds would account for the -2 charge on the molecule. I'm not really sure about the SO2 because I'm pretty sure sulfur dioxide is supposed to be neutral.
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:14 pm
- Forum: Shape, Structure, Coordination Number, Ligands
- Topic: Iron in Myoglobin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 227
Re: Iron in Myoglobin
Since iron is past row two, it can have an expanded octet, so it's able to accommodate the extra electrons. Additionally, as a transition metal, iron is capable of taking on a couple different charges while still remaining stable.
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: Shape, Structure, Coordination Number, Ligands
- Topic: Myoglobin coordination compound
- Replies: 1
- Views: 270
Re: Myoglobin coordination compound
Myoglobin actually includes more than just the tetradentate ligand from the HEME complex, there's also an amino acid (histamine) bound to it. The tetradentate ligand occupies four bonding sites around the iron while the histamine takes one of the two remaining spots above or below, leaving just one ...
Re: Naming
Another instance where you'd use the bis-, tris-, etc... prefixes is if the molecule you're naming already has prefixes like di-, tri-, etc... (e.g. (O2)2 -> bisdioxygen not didioxygen or (ea)3 -> trisethylenediamine).
Re: Naming
Also, the potassium comes first because it is the cation. Think of the coordination compound as just a really big, really complicated salt. You could consider NaCl where Na is the cation which always comes before Cl, the anion. In this instance (K2)+2 is the cation and [Ni(CN)4]-2 is the anion (henc...
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:47 pm
- Forum: Naming
- Topic: Polydentate Ligands
- Replies: 2
- Views: 255
Re: Polydentate Ligands
I think some other important ones are ethylenediamine (ea) (NH2CH3CH2NH2) and oxalate (C2O4). They're both bidentate and show up fairly frequently. As for structure, they're fairly easy to figure out if you just break the atoms into the groups as they're named (i.e. NH2 + CH2 + ...). Just make sure ...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: Lewis Acids & Bases
- Topic: Identifying Lewis Acids and Bases
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1131
Re: Identifying Lewis Acids and Bases
Maybe It's because SO3 has the option to include either single or double bonds? If all three oxygens are double bonded to the sulfur, the molecule is stable, but if it acts as an acid, some of the double bonds can switch to single bonds to create room to accept electrons. H2O2 on the other hand is s...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:06 pm
- Forum: Properties & Structures of Inorganic & Organic Acids
- Topic: Fundementals J15 NaC6H5O is acid/base?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3960
Re: Fundementals J15 NaC6H5O is acid/base?
By equilibrium symbol, are you referring to the notation used in class with two arrows stacked on top of each other? What exactly does this symbol mean, is it just there to indicate that the reaction is prone to go either way?
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:53 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: Polarity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 316
Re: Polarity
Basically, the molecule is a carbon ring, but one of the atoms is a nitrogen that has five valence electrons, not four. Because of this, the nitrogen has a lone pair unlike the carbons which each have a single bond to a hydrogen. This lone pair has high electron density which makes the side with the...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:47 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: T shaped
- Replies: 6
- Views: 558
Re: T shaped
The T-shape is a planar shape, so you can think of it almost like a trigonal planar shape that just has two lone pairs which push the atoms closer together to a 90 degree angle instead of the 120 degree angle.
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:40 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: polarity vs. nonpolarity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 622
Re: polarity vs. nonpolarity
You do have to be careful when looking at dipole moments because some nonpolar molecules can have dipole moments, they just cancel out against other dipole moments. For a molecule to be polar it must have polar bonds with dipoles that don't cancel. Professor Lavelle also said it would be helpful to ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:32 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: Molecule Shape for HCN
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1382
Re: Molecule Shape for HCN
You can also tell because HCN only has two regions of electron density around the central atom and the shape to position two regions the farthest apart is linear.
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:27 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: Bond angle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1576
Re: Bond angle
Since AX2E has 3 regions of electron density, it's form comes from the trigonal planar shape and the angle will be slightly less than 120, but AX2E2 has 4 regions of electron density so it's form comes from a tetrahedral shape where two of the substituents are replaced with lone pairs. Coming from a...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:14 am
- Forum: Determining Molecular Shape (VSEPR)
- Topic: General question on Molecular Shape
- Replies: 2
- Views: 517
Re: General question on Molecular Shape
I think another way to think of it is to count the regions of electron density there are around the central atom and see which regions correspond to atoms that are bonded to the center and which regions are lone pairs. If you use the notation professor Lavelle used in class (AXE, A=central atom, X=b...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Coordinate Covalent Bonds
- Topic: bound atoms vs separate atoms
- Replies: 5
- Views: 775
Re: bound atoms vs separate atoms
Also, bound atoms often take on formations that fill up their orbitals through the octet guideline. This pairs up electrons and keeps them localised around the atom or molecule which keeps them at lower energy.
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:33 am
- Forum: Polarisability of Anions, The Polarizing Power of Cations
- Topic: ionic vs. covalent character
- Replies: 3
- Views: 396
Re: ionic vs. covalent character
Ionic and covalent character also influence the physical characteristics of molecules. For example, compounds with higher ionic character generally exhibit higher melting points and are more conductive while compounds with more covalent character are the reverse.
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: Octet Exceptions
- Topic: Resonance Structures
- Replies: 7
- Views: 798
Re: Resonance Structures
In class, professor Lavelle indicated the presence of resonance structures by drawing them next to each other and putting a double ended arrow (<-->) between to show that the different Lewis structures are interchangeable. Beyond that, I don't think there's a more sophisticated way to show resonance...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:15 pm
- Forum: Resonance Structures
- Topic: ????
- Replies: 2
- Views: 256
Re: ????
Each type of bond has a different length (single bonds are longer than double bonds, etc...), so when we draw a Lewis structure that has both single and double bonds that can be switched around or interchanged (take the classroom example of NO3-, where there are two single bonds and one double bond,...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:09 pm
- Forum: Resonance Structures
- Topic: 2C.3 (7th edition)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 155
Re: 2C.3 (7th edition)
I'm pretty sure the only structures considered to be resonance structures are those that have a neutral charge (or if it's an ion, at least the same charge). Resonance structures blend together into one hybrid structure that represents the actual molecule with averaged bond lengths. All the differen...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: Ionic & Covalent Bonds
- Topic: determining bond strength
- Replies: 3
- Views: 399
Re: determining bond strength
You may also need to know the distinction between covalent and ionic bonds with regard to their electronegativity difference (difference>2 is ionic, difference<1.5 is covalent, the area in between can go either way depending on which type of character is displayed more).
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:57 pm
- Forum: Quantum Numbers and The H-Atom
- Topic: Sketching orbitals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 356
Re: Sketching orbitals
We might be required to identify orbitals given the pictures or name the orbitals according to whatever axis they lie on, but then again, I'm not sure.
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:54 pm
- Forum: Quantum Numbers and The H-Atom
- Topic: 2 Exceptions to the Electron Configuration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 228
Re: 2 Exceptions to the Electron Configuration
I think it's actually the d orbital that gets the electron, not the p orbital, since Cr: [Ar] 3d5 4s1 where putting the electron into the d orbital is actually more stable than putting it in to fill the s orbital like we'd expect ([Ar] 3d4 4s2). The same goes with copper (Cu: [Ar] 3d10 4s1 rather th...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Photoelectric Effect
- Topic: Work Function
- Replies: 16
- Views: 759
Re: Work Function
In most of the problems I've seen, they don't usually give a number as the work function outright. Generally it's referred to as "the energy required to remove an electron from _____ surface" or whatever. I've also seen problems where the frequency or wavelength is given rather than the en...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:48 am
- Forum: Properties of Light
- Topic: Expected to know?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 652
Re: Expected to know?
We should probably at least know the order of waves i.e. which has a shorter wavelength vs which has a longer wavelength, etc... since the photoelectric effect, which was an important part of this unit, relies on waves with short wavelength and high frequency (like UV). Longest wavelength-----radio-...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:39 am
- Forum: Properties of Light
- Topic: Chapter 1 Homework Question [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4743
Re: Chapter 1 Homework Question [ENDORSED]
How do we rule out the possibility of a and b? Can we use the formula c=λv and say that wavelength and frequency are inversely related, or does that only apply to light?
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Balancing Chemical Reactions
- Topic: How To....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2537
Re: How To....
For the question on labeling states of matter, I'm pretty sure they will usually be given unless it's something like a combustion reaction where we should know that the products will be CO2 and H2O in gas form.
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:21 pm
- Forum: Empirical & Molecular Formulas
- Topic: Determining Empirical and Molecular Formulas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 381
Re: Determining Empirical and Molecular Formulas
I think that's the right ordering most of the time, but you have to be careful with ionic compounds since there could be polyatomic ions which don't always follow that kind of ordering (e.g. things like sulfates (SO4) where the oxygen goes at the end or hydroxide (OH) with oxygen before hydrogen).
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:11 pm
- Forum: Molarity, Solutions, Dilutions
- Topic: Actual/Theoretical Yield
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4221
Re: Actual/Theoretical Yield
Could actual yield ever be greater than theoretical yield? Maybe there are impurities in the reagents or the scale isn't calibrated correctly? I remember doing labs in high school where we ran into issues of actual yield vs theoretical yield when we got impossible amounts of product during experimen...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: Limiting Reactant Calculations
- Topic: limiting reactant problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 176
Re: limiting reactant problem
Also, the amount of product C, which I believe was the next question in that problem set, would only be 1.5 mol because conservation of mass ensures that only the 1 mol A and 0.5 mol B consumed go into making the product.
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:18 pm
- Forum: Balancing Chemical Reactions
- Topic: Problem L.35
- Replies: 5
- Views: 330
Re: Problem L.35
I got stuck on the same problem. I'm pretty sure that there is a typo in the 7th edition of the textbook because the question includes a string of chemical equations, each with a product that is used as a reactant in the next reaction. The second equation FeBr2 + Br2 ---> Fe3Br8 has Fe3Br8 as it's p...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: Molarity, Solutions, Dilutions
- Topic: Units - L or mL? [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4586
Re: Units - L or mL? [ENDORSED]
It might be important to consider how the units fit with the answer itself too. If you have a minuscule amount, it's probably better to write the answer in mL to avoid dealing with scientific notation and all that. Plus, it's more practical for a real life lab situation. You generally wouldn't tell ...