Vocab
Electrochemistry
Kinetics
Equilibrium
Acids and Bases
100

The name of the constant that relates concentrations at equilibrium.

What is the equilibrium constant?

100
A reaction where reactants gain and lose electrons.

What is a REDOX reaction?

100

The step in a mechanism that decides how fast it will go.

What is the rate-determining setp?

100

The difference between K and Q.

What is the fact that K is the constant at equilibrium, while Q is the constant when the reaction is not at equilibrium.

100

The 4 big acids.

What are hydrochloric, perchloric, sulfuric, and nitric acid?

200

The thing that happens when the acid and base "cancel out"

What is neutralization?

200

A cell that turns chemical energy into electricity.

What is a galvanic cell?

200

k[A]x[B]y[C]z

What is the differential rate law?

200

The thing that happens to the reaction when Q>K.

What is the reaction shifting left?

300

The equation that calculates electrovoltaic cell potential,

What is the Nernst Equation?

300

A cell that converts electricity into chemical energy.

What is an electrolytic cell?

300

The first order rate law.

What is ln[A]=-kt+ln[A]o

300

The tool that allows us to calculate equilibrium concentrations.

What are ICE tables?

400

A model that states that a reaction can only occur with enough energy and the correct orientation.

What is the collision model of kinetics?

400

-nFEocell

The maximum work that can be done by a cell.

400

The equation of the half life of a 0 order reaction.

What is [Ao]/(2k)

500

The equation that allows you to solve for the pH of a buffer solution.

What is the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.

500

How long it will take for 12.2g of aluminum to be plated out of a solution of aluminum nitrate in an electrolytic cell operating at 15.0 amps.

What is 145 minutes?

500

A rate law where one concentration is MUCH smaller than the rest.

What is a pseudo-integrated rate law?