Redox
Atomic Structure and Periodicity
Bonding
Thermochemistry / Energetics
Kinetics
100

A process in which oxygen is gained by a species in a chemical reaction (or electrons are lost)

What is oxidation?

100

Group 1 of the periodic table

What is the location of the alkali metals?

100

A bond formed through electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged species

What is an ionic bond?

100
Energy transferred through a difference in temperature
What is heat?
100
Activation energy
What is the energy required to start a reaction?
200
The gaining of electrons during a chemical reaction
What is reduction?
200

A negatively charged particle of an atom

What is an electron?

200
Two or more atoms sharing electrons
What is a covalent bond?
200

Reaction that results in overall absorption of heat

What is an endothermic reaction?

200

Lowers the activation energy of a reaction

What is a catalyst?

300

The reactant that accepts electrons

What is an oxidizing agent?

300

Decreases in size from left to right on the periodic table

What is atomic radius?

300

Intermolecular forces between nonpolar molecules

What are Van Der Waals forces?

300
Energy is neither created nor destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
300

Describes how reactions take place as a result of colliding particles

What is the Collision Theory?

400

Laboratory technique to determine the unknown concentration of a substance in a solution involving a redox reaction

What is a redox titration?

400

An atom with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons

What is an isotope?

400

These molecules are generally soluble in solvents such as isopropyl alcohol, dichloromethane, and ether. 

What are non-polar molecules?

400

Typical measure of energy in thermodynamic reactions.

What is a Joule?

400

A graph relating the kinetic energy of particles to the number of particles with kinetic energy; shows how increasing temperature can increase the amount of particles with sufficient energy to overcome the activation energy

What is a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curve?

500

Oxidation number of nitrogen in nitrate

What is +4?

500

A device used to determine the number of isotopes a given element has

What is a mass spectrometer?

500

These forces arise from polar bonds and asymmetry in molecules

What are dipole-dipole forces?

500
The measurement of heat change over a chemical reaction
What is calorimetry?
500

A mathematical equation relating the reaction rate to the concentration of reactants

What is a rate law?

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