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What is the atomic number of an atom?
The number of protons
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What is the mass number of an atom?
The total number of proton and neutrons in its nucleus
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What are isotopes?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
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What is the relative mass of a proton?
1
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What is the relative mass of a Neutron?
1
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What is the relative mass of an Electron?
very small
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What do isotopes always have?
The same atomic numbers but different mass number.
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Why don’t symbol equations tell us directly what mass of each reactant to use in a chemical reaction?
Atoms of different elements have different masses.
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What is different about samples of different isotopes?
Physical properties
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What is the same about samples of different isotopes?
Chemical properties
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What does Ar stand for?
Relative atomic masses
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How do we work out the Ar(Relative atomic mass) of a compound?
By adding up the relative atomic masses of the elements in it, in the ratio shown by its formula
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What is the percentage yield of a reaction?
How much product is made compared the maximum amount that could be made
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What is the molecular formula?
The ratio of elements that are in a compound
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Why do we need to balance chemical equations?
Conservation of mass
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What is the yield of a chemical reaction?
How much product is made
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Why is it important to maximize yield?
To conserve the Earth's limited resource and reduce pollution
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What is a reversible reaction?
When reactants of the products can react to make the original reactants again
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What symbol do we use to show a reversible reaction?
Two arrows on parallel, the top facing to the right, and the bottom to the left
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What is a E number?
A food additive added to improve the appearance or shelf life
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What is a Food additive?
A substance added to food in order to preserve or improve its taste, texture or appearance
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What is paper chromatography?
A technique used to identify food additives
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How can compounds in a mixture be separated?
Gas chromatography
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Once separated, how can compounds be identified?
Mass Spectromer
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What does the mass spectrometer find in a compound?
Molecular ion peak
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