Definitions
Specific Heat or Calorimetry
Latent Heat
MYSTERY COLUMN
danger zone
100

Define a calorie

The amount of heat required to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius

100

What is the purpose of a calorimeter's insulation?

–q(object) = q(liquid) + q(calorimeter)

[answers may vary]


100

Energy is _____________ when you go from a solid --> liquid, --> gas.

What is required (absorbed, needed)?

100

Where is potential energy stored in chemicals?

Bonds

100

What is an isotope?

Two or more atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons

200

Define Potential Energy

Energy that is stored


200

What is the unit for specific heat capacity?

J/gºC

200

When water condenses in the back of a refrigerator, the temperature will _______________.

What is increase?

200

Name any Noble Gas

answers may include: He; Ne; Ar; Kr; Xe; Rn;

200

What is the full ground state electron configuration for sulfur?

1s22s22p63s23p4

300

Exothermic reaction 

A chemical reaction that releases energy 

300

A 2.5-kg sample of copper (c = 0.386 J/gºC) at 24.1 ºC experiences a change in temperature to 19.7ºC. How much energy is involved?

–4,200 J

300

A 30,000 g of gold requires 1,890,000 J of energy to melt it. The latent heat of fusion for gold is ____________

What is 63 J/g?

300

What is the most electronegative element?

flourine

300

What is the chemical formula of barium nitrate?

Ba(NO3)2

400

Specific heat capacity

The amount of heat it takes to raise a specific mass of a substance 1 ºC

400

175.0 grams of an unknown metal gain 5.6 kJ of heat. The metal's temperature rises from 24.3 ºC to 110.5 ºC. What is the specific heat capacity of the metal in J/gºC? 

0.37 J/gºC
400

The amount of energy required to completely melt a 3.0000 kg piece of ice that is initially -30.000 degrees C.

What is 1,190,270 J?

(find q -30 C to 0C then find latent heat of Ice at 0C) 1,187,400 J

400

Describe a calorimeter.

must list at least 3:

-Insulated 

-Thermometer

-Liquid of known heat capacity

-Stirring mechanism

400

Balance the following chemical equation

Mg(s) + AlCl3(aq) --> Al(s) + MgCl2(aq)

3Mg(s) + 2AlCl3(aq) --> 2Al(s) + 3MgCl2(aq)

500

Latent heat

The amount of heat absorbed or released by a substance during a phase change

500

A calorimetry experiment is performed on a 112.1g sample of metal. It is heated to a temperature of 175.0 ºC and put in a calorimeter that contains 250.0g of water. If the water's temperature rises from 27.1 ºC to 31.7 ºC, what is the specific heat capacity of the metal? Ignore the calorimeter in your calculation.

The specific heat is 0.30 J/gºC. 

500

The amount of energy required to change a 2000.0 g bucket of water at 1.000 degrees C to vapor at 140.0 degrees C. (c ice = 1.864 J/gC)

What is 5,498,000 J?

500

What kind of bonds connect water molecules?

Hydrogen Bonds

500

Give the balanced chemical equation for the complete combustion of liquid propane (C3H8).

C3H8 + 5O2 --> 3CO+ 4H2O
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