Salter's Chemistry - Elements of life unit

Questions from the Salter's AS Chemistry course for the EL unit

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  • Created on: 13-04-11 16:53
In a sample of chlorine, 75% is chlorine with a relative atomic mass of 35 and 25% is chlorine with a relative atomic mass of 37. What is the average relative atomic mass?
35.5
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What is alpha-decay?
emission of helium nuclei
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What is beta-decay?
emission of electrons
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Half-life is...
the time taken for a species to break down to half its original volume
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Peaks on a mass spectrum are produced by...
fragments with a positive charge
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What is the bond angle in a molecule with a tetrahedral shape?
109 degrees
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What is the bond angle in a molecule with a triangular planar shape?
120 degrees
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The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. How long will it take for the sample's count rate to decrease from 160 counts per minute to 40 counts per minute?
11460 years
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In the ionisation area of a mass spectrometer, the sample is 'bombarded' with electrons so that...
cations are formed
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What is an isotope?
atom with same number of protons, different number of neutrons
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What is alpha-decay?

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emission of helium nuclei

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What is beta-decay?

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Half-life is...

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Peaks on a mass spectrum are produced by...

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georgia gillett

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thanks this was useful

Krystal

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Thanks sooo much

Shanice

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thanks! merry xmas ;)

Qaleh

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Thank you :)

KR

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Good Job! :)

kel

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half life is: ''The time taken for half of the radioactive nuclei in a sample to decay''..please change

Devapriya Murukesan

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really good

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