Organic Compounds
What is an organic compound?
Compounds with carbon atoms.
What are inorganic compounds?
Compounds with no Carbon atoms (with some exceptions)
What states of matter do they exist as?
Solids, Liquids and gases
Where can Inorganic compounds be found?
found in non-living things
Why are organic compounds important?
What are the 3 most common elements in Organic Compounds?
What state of matter do these exist in?
Solids
Where are organic compounds found?
Found mostly in most living things.
Name at least 1 physical property of inorganic compounds.
Low melting points/boiling points relative to organic compounds, soluble in water, non-soluble in some organic solutions
How many organic compounds are there?
19 million carbon compounds
Name at least 1 physical property of organic compounds.
Insoluble in water, low melting/boiling points
What kind of bonds do Inorganic Compounds form?
Ionic Bonds
True or False: Organic Compounds are poor conductors of heat in aqueous solutions?
True
True or false: Inorganic compounds can sometimes form carbon-hydrogen bonds.
False
How many inorganic compounds are there?
500,000 known compounds
What kind of bonds do organic compounds form?
Covalent bonds
Name at least 1 chemical property of inorganic compounds.
Hight rate of reaction, not inflammable in nature
Name at least 1 chemical property of these compounds
highly Inflammable, low rate of reaction
True or False: Inorganic Compounds can form salts
True
What do carbides, carbonates, and cyanides have in common?
They are the only carbon-containing compounds not known as organic
Name at least 3 examples of organic compounds.
Fats, Nucleic Acids, Sugars, Enzymes, Proteins, Hydrocarbon Fuels
True or False: Inorganic Compoundsare biological and more complex in nature.
False. These are of mineral and not much complexity in nature
True or False: Organic compounds are not inflammable and are non-volatile in nature
False
Name at least 3 examples of inorganic compounds.
Non-metals, Salts, Metals, Acids, Bases, Substances made from single elements
What is the Carbon Cycle?
The cycle in which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth