F331 Keywords

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  • Created by: Avani
  • Created on: 20-01-13 16:35
Octane Number
Tendency of a fuel to auto ignite (high value = low tendency)
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Half Life
Time taken for half of a radioactive nuclei sample to decay
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Nuclear Fusion
Joining two or more nuclei to form a heavier nucleus of a new element
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Entropy
Measure of the number of ways molecules can be arranged
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Catalyst
speeds up a chemical reaction but can be recovered chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction
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Endothermic
Reaction that takes energy in from its surroundings, decreasing the temperature of the surroundings
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Exothermic
Reaction that gives out energy to its surroundings, increasing the temperature of its surroundings
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Hess's Law
As long as the starting and finishing points are the same, the enthalpy change for a chemical reaction will always be the same
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Isotopes
Elements with the same atomic number but have different mass numbers
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Atomic Number
Number of protons
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Mass Number
Number of protons and neutrons
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Avogadro constant
6x10(23) - the number of particles in 1 mole of a substance
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Bond Enthalpy
Average energy required to break the bonds of 1 mole of gaseous compounds
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Saturated
All the bonds between carbon atoms are single bonds
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Aliphatic
Have no ring structures
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Unsaturated
Have one or more double carbon bonds between carbon atoms in a molecule
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Aromatic
Have one or more benzene rings in their structure
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Heterogeneous Catalyst
Catalyst in a different physical state to the reactants
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Empirical Formula
Simplest ratio of atoms of each element in a compound
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Tracers
Radioactive isotopes whose decay is monitored
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Relative Atomic Mass
Number of times an atom of an element is heavier than one-twelfth of an atom of Carbon-12
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Relative Formula Mass
Sum of the relative atomic masses for each atom in a formula
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Molecular Formula
The actual number of atoms of each element in a molecule
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Time taken for half of a radioactive nuclei sample to decay

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Half Life

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Joining two or more nuclei to form a heavier nucleus of a new element

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Card 4

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Measure of the number of ways molecules can be arranged

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Card 5

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speeds up a chemical reaction but can be recovered chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction

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Really helpful, thanks :)

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