Redox
A process in which oxygen is gained by a species in a chemical reaction (or electrons are lost)
What is oxidation?
Group 1 of the periodic table
What is the location of the alkali metals?
A bond formed through electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged species
What is an ionic bond?
A negatively charged particle of an atom
What is an electron?
Reaction that results in overall absorption of heat
What is an endothermic reaction?
Lowers the activation energy of a reaction
What is a catalyst?
The reactant that accepts electrons
What is an oxidizing agent?
Decreases in size from left to right on the periodic table
What is atomic radius?
Intermolecular forces between nonpolar molecules
What are Van Der Waals forces?
Describes how reactions take place as a result of colliding particles
What is the Collision Theory?
Laboratory technique to determine the unknown concentration of a substance in a solution involving a redox reaction
What is a redox titration?
An atom with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons
What is an isotope?
These molecules are generally soluble in solvents such as isopropyl alcohol, dichloromethane, and ether.
What are non-polar molecules?
Typical measure of energy in thermodynamic reactions.
What is a Joule?
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?
Oxidation number of nitrogen in nitrate
What is +4?
A device used to determine the number of isotopes a given element has
What is a mass spectrometer?
These forces arise from polar bonds and asymmetry in molecules
What are dipole-dipole forces?
A mathematical equation relating the reaction rate to the concentration of reactants
What is a rate law?