Chemistry basics

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Definitions

Solvent - liquid that dissolves substances.

Salt - mad when an acid reacts with an alkali, carbonate or metal.

Mixture - made from molecules of elements and o pounds that are mixed together, without chemical bonds.

Compound - a substance that is made of only one type of atom.

Element - made from atoms of different elements joined by chemical bonds

Metal - oftern giant structures that are good conductors of heat and electricity.

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Periodic table

Left hand side - metals
Right hand side - non metals
All metals are solid at room temp. except mercurey, which is a liquid.
All non metals are gases and solids at room temp. except bromine, which is a liquid.

Group 1 - alkaline metals
Group 2 - alkaline earth metals
Group 7 - halogens
Group 9 - noble gases

The diatomic elements are:

H2
N2
O2
F2
Cl2
Br2
I2

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Separation techniques

Chromatography - sipolvebt travels up the paper, and different soluble substances in a mixture get carried along different speeds so they separate out.

Dissolving - the Saltgate breaks up into tiny particles that mix with the particles of the solvent to make a solution the solvent is still all there so the mass of the solution the same is the mass of the solute and solvent added together.

Evaporating – the liquid evaporates and leave the solids behind.

Filtering - undissolved particles are too big to get into tiny gaps in the filterpaper, so they get trapped. The liquid and any dissolved solids go through the filterpaper.

Simple distillation - used for separating out a mixture of liquid and solid. Liquid is heated and evaporate off to form a gas, the gas Is them condensed and the liquids and solids have been separated.

Fractional distillation - Use when separating two liquids. The liquids are boiled and because they have different boiling point will evaporate different temperatures, so they can be separated.

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Isotopes

Isotopes are atoms of the same element which contain different numbers in their nuclei.

What’s the same:

– number of protons
– all chemical reactions
– atomic number

What’s different:

– Number of neutrons
– mass number
– physical properties

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