Symbolic Formulas
H2O
What is water?
By definition it's the branch of chemistry that deals with non-carbon compounds.
What is Inorganic Chemistry?
When lemon juice is dropped on blue litmus paper, the paper will turn this color.
What is red?
Adding chlorine to an alkane requires this luminous reagent.
What is UV light?
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What is the Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man?
H2SO4
What is Sulfuric Acid?
The process of coating an object with metal by putting it in say a CuSO4 bath through which current is run.
What is electroplating?
Term for a substance that modifies & speeds up a chemical reaction without itself being affected.
What is a catalyst?
This state of matter is bypassed in sublimation.
What is liquid?
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HNO3
What is nitric acid?
In 1923 Bronsted & Lowry determined that when an acidic substance loses a proton it forms this.
What is a base/conjugate base?
It's the boiling point of water on the Celsius scale.
What is 100oC?
This type of bond is formed by 2 atoms each contributing 1 electron to a shared electron pair.
What is a covalent bond?
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What is Tug of War and Peace?
HCOOH
What is Methanoic Acid/Formic Acid?
Many car batteries use a solution of sulfuric acid & water called this, also what Gatorade tries to replenish.
What is an electrolyte?
On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1, lye as a 14.
What is the pH scale?
A dipole is a molecule in which this is opposite at the 2 poles.
What is charge?
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K2Cr2O7
What is Potassium Dichromate?
The structural formula for water is HOH; HOOH is the formula for this solution that you might keep in your bathroom or first aid kit.
What is Hydrogen Peroxide?
In chemistry, B.P. stands for this; water's is 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is boiling point?
These compounds contain the same types of atoms in the same proportions but in different arrangements.
What are Isomers?
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What is Puss in Boots on the Ground?