"High School Chemistry Review"
Nuclear Reactions and Decay
Half-Life
Light and Quantum Numbers
Miscellaneous
100

86.5 g NaCl were put in 720 mL of water. Find the molarity of the solution.

What is 2.1 M NaCl?

100

Write the symbols for Alpha Particles, Beta Particles, Positrons, and Neutrons.

What are:

Alpha, 42He

Beta, 0-1B

Positron, 01B

Neutron, 10n

100

The number of half-lives that have passed when 75% of the radioactive material has decayed.

What are 2 half-lives?

100

The change in energy and wavelength as frequency increases.

What is energy increases and wavelength decreases with increasing frequency?

100

Identify one difference between chemical and nuclear reactions.

What are: 

- Identity of elements can change in nuclear reactions

- Mass Conservation does not hold for nuclear reactions

- Electrons are the primary participants of chemical reactions

200

Balance the Reaction

C2H6 + O2 --> H2O + CO2

What is 2C2H6 + 7O2 --> 6H2O + 4CO2?

200

Radium-230 (Ra) Undergoes Alpha Decay. Find the resultant nuclide.

What is Radon-226?

200

The half-life is 15 years for a radioactive substance. Initially, there were 89.7 g and now there are 18.3 g. Find how much time has passed.

What is 34.4 years?

200

A photon is emitted when electron goes from __ to __ energy level.

What are high to low?

200

Compare an orbit (Bohr Model) to an orbital (Quantum Model).

What are a fixed, quantized radius where an electron is (orbit) vs. the likely region an electron can be in based on its quantum numbers?

300

Usain Bolt ran the 100m in 9.58 seconds. Find his average speed in km/h.

What is 37.6 km/h?

300

The effect that Beta Decay and Electron Capture have on a nuclide.

What are neutron becomes a proton (beta) and proton becomes a neutron (electron capture)?

300

The factor that affects the rate of decay for a nuclear decay process.

What is the amount of the substance?

300

The 2 sets of quantum numbers that define the electrons in a full 3s subshell.

What are n = 3, l = 0, ml = 0, ms = +/-0.5

300

Find mass defect of Krypton-82.

Mass of Kr-82: 81.913481 amu

Mass of Proton: 1.007825 amu

Mass of Neutron: 1.008665 amu

What is 0.766809 amu?

400

Number of molecules of H2O in 57.3 mg of H2O.

What are 1.91 * 1021 molecules of water?

400

Balance the Nuclear Reaction:

23592U + 10n --> 510n + 9139Y + ____

What is

23592U + 10n --> 510n + 9139Y + 14053I?

400

Initially, 100% of a brick was radioactive. Its half-life is 7.5 hrs. After 1 day, this much of the brick is still radioactive.

What is 10.9% of the brick?

400

Find wavelength of photon when electron jumps from n = 5 to n = 2.

What is 434 nm?

400

Find Nuclear Binding Energy per nucleon of Iron-56.

Mass of Fe-56: 55.934936 amu

Mass of Proton: 1.007825 amu

Mass of Neutron: 1.008665 amu

What is 8.79 MeV?

500

H2O + CO2 --> H2CO3

Given 251 g of water and 487 g of carbon dioxide, find grams of H2CO3 produced.

What is 689 grams of H2CO3?

500

Type of decay that is likely for Magnesium-20?

What is electron capture / positron emission?

500

Initially, 100% of the atoms in a rock are radioactive. Now, after 18000 years, for every 2 radioactive atoms, there are 7 stable atoms. Find half-life of the rock.

What is 8300 years?

500

Number of unique electrons that can have n = 2.

What are 8 electrons?

500

Use Sig Fig Rules: 2.34 * (3.981 + 7.5)

What is 26.9?