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(term 1) Test 1 + 2 Chemistry (Exam)

Precision and accuracy:

Precision: Precise but not accurate  (set of data that are close to each other but not on the target)

Accuracy: accurate but not precise (scattering further out but closer to the target than others)

Percent error: the lower it is the better the measurement, the higher it is the worse the measurement is 

* So if you take the difference of theoretical value-experimental value/theoretical value (in reality you can switch the order of the subtractions to guarantee that you will get a positive result) then x100

*Always take the positive value 

Example: a sample of wood has a density of .85 g/ml. You measure the density to be .91 g/ml

What is the percent error?

Answer: .91-.85/.85 = -0.09 x100

Matter:

Matter- anything that takes up space and has mass

Elements-can not be made more simple through chemical reactions

  • There are 118 of them today

  • 02- because it is made of oxygen atoms it is an element

Compounds: substances formed by 2+ elements that are bonded together and can be broken down into similar substances through chemical reactions. Formed chemically.

Mixture: mixing at least 2 pure substances together physically.

heterogeneous mixture: you can see a visible difference that makes up the mixture 

Homogeneous mixture: a combo of uniformly distributed substances, ex. Powerade

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Chemical and physical properties:

Physical properties: characteristic of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance's chemical composition. Ex. color, density, state, hardness, melting point, boiling point, smell, length, temperature, shine, volume, magnetism, mass, malleability, state, and conductivity.

Chemical Properties: characteristic of a substance that is observed during a chemical reaction and that involves a change in the substance's chemical composition. The ability to undergo a chemical change.

Ex. corrosion, acidity, color (if it is a reaction), flammability, ability to rust, oxidation (browning of foods), reactivity, and toxicity


Acidic: low ph

Basic: high ph

Physical change: change in the form or state  of a substance without any change in its chemical composition. New form but no apparent chemical reaction. Chemical reaction must be visible.

Ex. 

  • Cutting 

  • Breaking

  • Sand+water, salt +water, sugar+water

  • Crystallization

  • Stretching

  • Crushing 

  • Crumpling

  • melting/freezing/boiling

  • Mixing (if it can be separated)

  • Boiling water

Chemical change: one or more substances are transformed into one or more new substances with different chemical properties and compositions. Change pertains to one of the 6 senses.

Ex. 

  • Smell (if it suddenly changes)

  • Digestion (acids help break down)

  • Combustion (explosion)

  • Baking (using yeast to rise a food)

  • Leaves changing color

  • Rusting

  • Rotting 

  • Temperature change 

  • Photosynthesis

  • Sour milk

9/12/24

The Periodic table

Dimitri Mendeleev-attempted to come up with a system to organize all known elements, he grouped them in order by their individual masses, from the lightest-heaviest. These masses would become known as atomic masses. He put elements in columns based on having similar properties.

  • He noticed that there could be other elements in these columns that they missed at the time, he would make predictions about elements that hadn’t been discovered yet, and he was always right about what they would look like

Difference between group v. period- groups are vertical and they contain elements that are similar to each other. You can also organize the periodic table by periods or rows, they vary in size from period to period. Each of the elements in a period does not really have any relationships with each other they only relate in the increasing mass. The atomic number is the number at the top that consecutively gets larger. The atomic number =#of protons.

Metals-everything to the left of the staircase is considered a metal with the exception of hydrogen

Properties: 

  • They tend to have high melting points 

  • They are good conductors of electricity and heat

  • They are very shiny

  • They are very malleable (bendable/shapeable)

*For metals, as you go down the chart, they tend to get more reactive

Nonmetal: to the right of the staircase

Properties:

  • Can be gasses, liquids, or solids but mostly gasses

  • If they are solid they are brittle with low melting points and very dull and bad conductors of electricity

  • For non-metals, they get more reactive as you go up the chart

Metalloids: in between metals in nonmetals, ex. Brittle but shiny


*anything on the periodic table that is written in black is a solid at room temperature 

*if they are in blue (Br, Hg) it is a liquid at room temperature

*if they are red they are a gas at room temperature 

*clear is mostly unknown 


Main group: very important groups, some metals, nonmetals, and metalloids 

transition metals: very complex but not as interesting 

lanthanides/actinides(inner transition metals): they tend to be very heavy and rare elements that will not be studied very often, moved to the bottom for convenience and size purposes













Test 2 notes:

Aristotle v. Democritus - they were philosophers

Democritus- when it comes to matter  you canstart dividing and dividing until it can broken down to the smallest possible form = atoms (finite). Good idea, but no evidence.

Aristotle-he believed that matter was continuos and can always be divided further than it already is, people believed him more than Democritus, Aristotle was also born after Democritus died.


Law of conservation of mass: 

Antoine Lavoisier: he was a tax collector who was executed, he is considered the father of chemistry.


Elements

Iron (Fe)

air

Before

25 g

1 g

after

25.1 g

.9 g








* Mass is not created nor destroyed

*The table shows an example of rusting 

Law of definite proportions: a chemical compound that always contains the same elements in the same proportions by mass, every compound is built the same way every time =definite proportions. You can't just add extra amounts of elements to the set “recipe”


Law of multiple proportions: about multiple compounds made from the same elements. When two elements form more than one compound the ratios of the masses of one element that combine with a fixed mass of the other element are small whole numbers. They come in whole pieces called atoms 

Ex. co/co2 - 1 carbon in both, 2 oxygen in the second

* you will never have co1.5 or c02.5, they must be whole number ratios


Dalton's atomic theory- 

  • father of the atom, 

  • no theory is perfect

  • His theory is very repetitive and is backed by a lot of experimentation 

  1. All matter is made up of atoms. -> law of multiple proportions, atoms are indivisible and indestructible -> law of conservation of mass, 

  2. All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties ->law of multiple proportions

  3. Compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms in fixed proportions ->law of definite proportions

  4. In a chemical reaction, atoms can only be separated, combined, or rearranged ->law of conservation of mass


Electrons (JJ Thompson)

Cathode ray tube:

  • Deflection

  • Come from different materials 

  • Charge to mass ratio

*the light always bends toward the positive deflection coil, he believed what the was seeing was not light but a beam of negatively charged particles because opposites attract

*no matter what material he used for the cathode he would get the same reaction, so within the atom, there must be similar particles inside each atom

*he named these particles electrons 

  • Also created the mass/charge ratio

  • He also came up with the first atom model called:


  • The plum pudding model: electrons, positive charge distribution, and no nucleus. He believed the pudding was positive and the electrons inside were negatively charged. He also believed electrons where negative. 

Millikan oil drop:

  • Charged oil droplets 

  • Determined numerical charge of electrons

  • Allowed for electron mass calculations

  • Some electrons would attach to the oil droplets making them negative 

  • The center metal plate is positive

  • The bottom metal plate is negative 

  • He would find how heavy the electrons are, they are extremely light

Rutherfords gold foil:

  • Alpha particles - are heavy, fast, and positive. He would shoot the bullet at the gold foil assuming it would go straight through. When the alpha particle would hit the nuclei of a gold foil atom, which was not very often, it would bounce back. 

* the fact that they didn't run into this problem alot made them think it must be small but heavy, and extremely positive in charge. = describing a nucleus

  • Deflection

  • Small and massive

  • Positive charge 

  • The point of his experiment is that inside the atom there is a small item (nucleus) that is small heavy and positively charged

Modern atomic model:

P+=proton, e- = electrons, n=nuetrons

  • Electrons weigh alot less than protons and neutrons, and their charge is slightly negative, they are located around the nucleus in the electron cloud

  • Protons weigh the same as the neutrons are slightly positive and located in the nucleus

  • The nucleus weight the same as protons, and are neutral in charge (0), and located in the center of the atom


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Finding the average Atomic mass 

  • amu=atomic mass unit

  • Proton = lamu

  • neutron= lamu

*the mass of an atom is the sum of protons and neutrons

  • For MG(24) = 80% of all of the atoms are mg(24) 16/20 because 16 out of the 20 isotopes are (24)

  • m(capital) = the average atomic mass ex. M -m x % + m(2) x %(2) + m(3) x %(3)/100

  • Once you simplify the problem, only write down 4 digits

  • Round to the nearest hundreth place 

  • To check your answer, it should be very close to the actual mass of the element on the periodic table ex. (oxygen example on slide) =1595.16+.6796+3.59 = 15.99

  • Abundance with masses: take actual atomic mass directly from the periodic table

  • 10.0129(x) (x=%) + 1.0093 (100-x)/100, then multiply 10.182 times 100 (cross multiplication) 1081.2=10.0129x +1100.93 - 11.0093x, then move ones that look alike to the other side (x’s on one side, no x’s on the other), then simplify on both sides by adding or subtracting. Then divide by x. You will then put the one with the less abundance with the 0g final answer. The one with more abundance will subtract the OG number from 100 or (100-x).





10/4/24

Electron structure:

  • Opposites in an electron attract

  • Electrons will first move away from the nucleus, when they come back the energy will be released and shown in a flash of light 

  • The closer an electron and neutron are to each other, the lower the energy, the stronger the attraction and the atom is more stable 

  • The further an electron and neutron are to each other, the more energy, the weaker the attraction, and the less stable it is


Quantized electron orbits (shells):

  • Defined by the principal quantum numbers which must be an integer 

  • Ex. 1,2,3 etc. 

  • As the quantum number increases the orbit radius increases

  • Each orbit holds a maximum of 2n^2 electrons 

  • Lower energy orbits will fill up first

Periodicity-the idea that columns on the periodic table have similar properties

*when they have these similar properties they will have a similar number of valence electrons 

Valence electrons- electrons on the outermost shell, that will determine the reactivity level

*Roman numerals can represent each “period” or column of the periodic table

Line spectra: The energy level diagram shows that when moving away from the nucleus the energy will get higher 

Ground state v. excited state-

  • Ground state- electrons in their lowest possible energy

  • Excited state-higher energy level than the ground state 


Relaxation & emission: 

Relaxation: When an atom transfers from an excited state energy state to a ground state, by transferring energy to other atoms or through emission

Emission: when the frequency of radiation due to electrons transitioning from a high to low energy state, one of the multiple ways to do that 


Subshells & electron configuration:

  • The shell's names (in electron configuration) go in order of s, p,d, f.

  • row/shell, where an electron is found 

  • Remember when you are in your d-block row you will lose 1 row 

  • When you are in the f-block row you lose 2 rows

*a full shell of 8 valence electrons means that it is stable 


Stabilizing metals: 

  • You move the total amount of electrons to the other side and get rid of the stage and shell name from that previous side 

  • Metals lose electrons and non-metals gain them

  • When negative ions are added to an atom it gets bigger and when positive ions are added to an atom it gets smaller

Cation-positive ion 

Anion-negative ion 

Covalent bond-sharing of nonmetal electrons 

Monatomic ion has 1 ion


Ionic Bonding-positive and negative ions cancel each other out, it is the idea that a positive and negative ion form a bond and become stuck together because opposites attract  

  • The transfer happens in order to stabilize the atoms 


The octet rule: positive metal ions come first and negative nonmetal ions come second 

  • The last three letters of nonmetal ions normally are changed from ium->ide

  • When you have an uneven amount of electrons that don't add up to zero, you can bring in three or more atoms in order for it to do so

  • Remember when an atom loses electrons it has a +

  • When an atom gains electrons it has a -

  • Chemical Bonds: 

  • The attractive force that holds atoms together within a compound always includes electrons, which will be attracted to their own nucleus, and nucleases of other atoms

  • Ionic: 

  • Can be represented by a group of ions

  • Electrons are transferred between atoms to create ions. It means that one atom loses electrons and another atom gains electrons (cation/anion). 

  • The metal (cation) almost always loses electrons and nonmetals (anion) almost always gain electrons

  • Remember metals are on the left side of the periodic table and non-metals are on the right side of the periodic table

  • The chemical formula represents the ratio of ions ex. H20, 2 Hydrogen Ions for every 1 Oxygen ion

  • The bond is a positive charge being attracted to the negative charge of millions and billions of molecules 

  • Covalent bonds: 

  • Can be represented by an individual molecule, not a bunch of atoms

  • Atoms are close together and overlap and share electron clouds

  • Singular units called molecules are formed from these bonds

  • These bonds are formed between 2 nonmetal atoms

  • Insoluble in water

*if you ever see a metal atom in a formula it WILL be Ionic

Ionic Solids:

  • Held together by opposite attracting forces (electrostatic force)

  • Properties:

  • Composed of a metal and a nonmetal = polyatomic ions 

  • To melt them, it must be thousands of degrees because their bonds are extremely strong 

  • This means they have a high melting and boiling point

  • With ionic solids, they cannot have like charges because they will repel

  • Atoms are locked in a hard but brittle lattice

  • Hard Substances:

  •  resistant to being scratched but can scratch other things 

  • Brittle: 

  • something that will crumble

  • If their ions get misaligned (like charges) they will fall apart

  • Conductors:

  • In solid form, they are poor conductors 

  • This is because in conducting they must have charged particles that are free to move

  • Since these ions are bonded, they cannot move around

  • Solubility:

  • Soluble in water

  • In a dissolved form they are very good conductors

  • The water molecules will allow the particles to freely move around

Electrolyte and Conductivity:

  • Electrolyte is a synonym for an ionic compound

  • Electrolyte solution contains a substance that when dissolved conducts electricity 

  • Electricity is the flow of electrical current that moves through any substance with mobile charged particles

  • Dissolved ionic compounds have freely moving ions that can conduct electricity

Covalent Compounds:

  • Atoms in molecules are held together by covalent bonds

  • Intermolecular Forceses:

  • For molecules to stick together you must use Intermolecular Forces (IMF’s)

  • They allow one molecule to stick to another

  • It's strong, but its strength doesn’t compare to an Ionic or Covalent bond 

  • They have much weaker strength than other real chemical bonds

  • Properties:

  • Softer than ionic compounds and are gases and liquids at room temperature - weak

  • Low melting and boiling points, mean that it requires a heat of less than 100 degrees to melt it

  • Poor conductivity because electrons are shared and they are not charged

  • No circumstance can allow for conductivity to occur with covalent bonds

Nonelectrolyte Solution:

  • These are compounds that can dissolve in water but do not conduct electricity because the dissolved particles are not charged

  • Dissolved covalent compounds are non-electrolytes

*pure water is a terrible conductor, but ionic compounds that have broken down in water have become electricity conductor 

Metallic Compound: 

  • Metallic is similar to ionic because they have moving charged particles 

  • They also are like covalent bonds because they have shared electrons between all of the atoms

  • All valence electrons are shared between core cations and delocalized into an electron "sea" 

  • Properties:

  •  Large range of melting points 

  • Group I metals have very low melting points, and most will melt in your hand. 

  • Transition metals, except Mercury, have higher melting points. 

  • Lustrous: Shiny because they have electrons that move to the surface and when light strikes them they become shiny 

  • Ductile and malleable

  • Ability to move the ions around 

  • Opposite of brittle

  • Great conductors. 

  • Metals are the only conductors that can conduct in the solid state

  • Do not dissolve, water cant tear it apart

  • It's a metal if there are elements from the left side of the table included 

Network Covalent Solids:

  • Are like giant molecules

  •  A network of covalent bonded ATOMS that extends throughout a crystalline structure, holding it firmly together. 

  • Properties:

  • Hard 

  • Sublime or melt at high temp 

  • Nonconductors 

  • Examples are diamond, graphite, and quartz. 

  • Covalent structures do not dissolve (nonsoluble) 

10/21/24

Covalent Bonds:

  • When nonmetal atoms react with each other to achieve a full octet, they will use shared electrons to form this bond

  • Pair of electrons shared between 2 atoms

  • When hydrogen reacts, it does so to form a duet

  • Single Bond- 2 shared electrons

  • Double Bond-4 shared electrons

  • Triple Bond-6 shared electrons

  • An octet-an atom with 8 valence electrons that is stable and low in energy

  • It is hard for Hydrogen to get into an octet, its most stable point is a duet

  • Duet- 2 electrons, specific to Hydrogen

  • The red number at the top of the periodic table shows the number of valence electrons originally in their shell, on the right, “drop the one”

  • The hydrogen atom has only 1 valence electron, to make a bond with other electrons, they need 4 atoms to bond

  • Stable Molecule: when the shell has 8 valence electrons (octet) and each one has a covalent bond

Dot Structure:

  • Allows to know how many bonds are needed

  • These dot structures combine to form compounds that achieve the required octet or duet 

  • Lone Pair: non-bonding, already bonded because there are more than 4 valence electrons originally

  • The distance the element is from the noble gas is the amount of bonds it will make in total, ex. Nitrogen - 3 bonds

  • The placement of these “dots” around the element does not matter

  • Atoms in the same columns should always have the same dot structure

  • The one that can make the most bonds will go in the center of the structure

  • In the formula, if there are multiple of one element, the element is probably going to be on the outside of the other

  • Boron is an exception, you can't get an octet only 6

  • A negative ion gives you an extra electron to use 

  • A positive ion gives you one less electron to use 

  • Carbon always has 4 bonds

  • Oxygen has 2 bonds

  • Hydrogen has 1 bond

  • First, one that can make the most bonds goes in the middle, whatever comes before it will be bonded to it immediately, 

Dots v. Lines:

  • Draw lines to replace dots 

  • 1 line is 1 bond 

  • 2 lines (equal sign) are 2 bonds

  • 3 lines are 3 bonds

Lewis Structures:

  • Count the total number of valence electrons for each atom, or group of atoms, in a molecule (e.g., CHCI has 26 electrons).

  •  Identify the center atom (usually the atom present in the smallest quantity or the least electronegative).

  • Connect your atoms with single, double, or triple lines. Adjust your electron count to determine how many dots to add needed to bring atoms up to their octet or duet.

  • Hydrogen never has dots

  • Hydrogen has 1 bond

  • C, Si, and Ge have 4 bonds

  • N, P, As, Sb has 3 bonds

  • O, S, Se, Te have 2 bonds 

  • F, Cl, Br, I, At, have 1 bond 

*There are never odd total amounts of electrons

  • If you have multiple carbons put them all in a row

  • When you have carbon it is almost always in the middle 

Smell:

  • Organic compounds smell, but 1st they must find a way into your nose 

  • To smell them, they must evaporate (liquid to gas) or sublimation (solid to gas)

The function of Smell:

*functional group Louis structures in one note

  • A functional group is a cluster of atoms that are found in various molecules

  • The group tells molecules properties such as smell

  • More complex molecules can have a mixture of properties 

  • Alkane:

  • It only has Carbon and Hydrogen

  • It has single bonds 

  • Ex. C2 H6

  • Alkene:

  • Only has Carbon and Hydrogen 

  • 1 or more double bonds

  • Ex. C2 H4

  • Alkyne:

  • Has Carbon and Hydrogen

  • Has 1 or more triple bonds 

  • Ex. C2 H2

  • Aldehyde:

  • Has Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen

  • C and O are always double-bonded on the end and Carbon is also single-bonded to Hydrogen

  • Ex. C2 H4 O

  • Ketone:

  • Has carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

  • Minty

  • Carbon and oxygen are not double-bonded on the end 

  • One double-bonded o

  • Ex. C3 H6 0

  • Alcohol:

  • Has carbon hydrogen and oxygen

  • Oxygen and Hydrogen are single-bonded together

  • Ex. C2 H5 0H

  • Ether:

  • Has carbon oxygen and hydrogen

  • No O on the end

  • Has an O in the middle of two single bonds 

  • Ex. C2 H6 0

  • Acid/Carboxylic Acid:

  • Has carbon oxygen and hydrogen

  • Smells bad

  • Ex. COOH

  • Ester:

  • Has carbon hydrogen and oxygen 

  • COO in the middle

  • Amine:

  • Has carbon hydrogen and nitrogen

  • Smells fishy

  • Has a Nitrogen with multiple single bonds 2-3

Carboxylic Acid: Smells very pad like stinky feet or rotten milk

Ester Groups: They smell sweet

Ketone Groups: Smells minty

Amine Group: smells fishy 

Isomers:

  • Isomers are compounds that share the same molecular formula, but they are arranged in a different order.

  • Even though isomers are made from the same atoms, they have unique properties because they often form different functional groups.