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Dr. Lavelle,

Thank you so much for putting the amount of work you do into this class. Chemistry Community has provided me with the ability to quickly get my questions answered about difficult concepts. Your passion for chemistry also keeps me interested in class and makes the subject enjoyable.

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Does the hydrogen have to bond first, or can the steps be written in a different order (i.e. with the Iodine bonding to the carbon structure first.

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Odel,

The standard Gibbs free energy of activation is always positive because it always takes some free energy to initiate the reaction.

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Two things that whether or not a system is reversible can affect is entropy and work done on the environment. In the case of a reversible process, Delta S system = -Delta S surrondings. This is not the case with an irreversible process.

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Ka is the k value of the decomposition of a weak acid (i.e., it is the dissociation constant) it is calculated the same way as K for the rxn. A square root is taken in this equation, because the redox reaction has everything doubled, and the Ka is based on the simplest version of the rxn. We had to ...

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Just to clarify, if the pressure changes, but the volume does not, no work is done, right?

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Angela, both equations work. For whatever reason, they sometimes come out to slightly different numbers, but so long as you show your work and and your calculations are correct you should receive credit. One of the past midterms (either 2016 or 2013, I can't remember) has a situation like this where...

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You would normally want to make have the equations reduced if you were trying to create a spontaneous rxn (+ E of cell), but it is given with Mn2+ being oxidized so it must be written that way on the final answer.

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It should be noted that it needs to be a pure, solid (or liquid, in the case of Hg) metal. Metal ions and metals bonded to larger compounds (Ni(OH)2 for example) are not adequately able to conduct electrons.

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The question is stated as: Calculate the standard entropy of vaporization of water at 85 C, given that its standard entropy of vaporization at 100. C is 109.0 J K 1 mol 1 and the molar heat capacities at constant pressure of liquid water and water vapor are 75.3 J K 1 mol 1 and 33.6 J K 1 mol 1, res...

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I have a question regarding b) The question is finding the enthalpy of formation for the liquid state of CH3O3, methanol. According to the solutions manual, you have to add the enthalpy of sublimation for carbon, because carbon is a solid in its ground state. Is there any reason why we use the entha...

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Thanks for the info, very clear and easy to understand.

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From what I understand, it takes bond length/strength do not always have the same effects on acidity. It takes some more complex organic chemistry to explain, having partly to do with the difference between heterolytic and homolytic bond cleavage and the ability of the conjugate base to stabilize th...

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So, higher electron withdrawing ability means a weaker acid? Also, how can one tell what the electron withdrawing ability is of an electron withdrawing group? For example, how would you know that F has a greater electron withdrawing ability than H or CH3? I can see that CH3 would have a lot more ele...

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The logic from the textbook, which says that acid strength depends on polarity, is correct in putting the acidity of the compounds you mentioned as NH3<H2O<HF, with HF being the strongest acid. As far as bond strength, the WEAKER the H-A bond, the STRONGER the acid. To make it more clear, weaker bon...

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Just to clarify, this means that strong acids and bases have no Ka or Kb?

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By lecture notes does that mean the first 4 pages of the course reader?

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Q: How many Heisenbergs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is.

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Nasir, In short, when carbon bonds with other atoms, the first bond is always a sigma bond, and any subsequent bond is a pi bond. A single bond between, say, carbon and hydrogen would be on sigma bond. A triple bond between, for example, 2 carbon molecules would be made up of one sigma bond and 2 pi...

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