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The sequence of small, individual collision steps (elementary steps) that a reaction actually proceeds through on the way from reactants to products — as opposed to the overall balanced equation, which only shows the start and end points.
Chemistry
Chemistry · L3 · Reaction Mechanisms and the Rate-Determining Step
Common Polyatomic Ions and Their Charges A polyatomic ion is a small group of atoms bonded together that carries one overall charge and behaves as a single unit when building a formula — it gets crossed, subscripted, and bracketed exactly l
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Chemistry · L3 · Naming and Writing Ionic Formulae
Evaporation and Condensation After it rains, a puddle sits on the sidewalk. A few hours later on a sunny day, it is gone. Where did all that water go? Evaporation: Liquid Water Becomes Invisible Vapor The sun warms the puddle, and slowly th
A semiconductor nanoparticle, typically only a few nanometers across, small enough that quantum confinement effects dominate its electronic behavior — unlike a bulk crystal of the same material, where those effects are negligible.
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Chemistry · L5 · Nanomaterials and Quantum Confinement
Crystals and Crystallization A crystal is a solid whose particles are arranged in a regular, repeating pattern. That pattern repeats over and over in every direction, like a tiny, perfectly ordered stack of building blocks. Because the patt
State Hess's Law, and explain WHY it works in terms of a fundamental property of enthalpy.1 / 10
Hess's Law: if a reaction can be written as the sum of two or more steps, its overall ΔH equals the sum of the ΔH values of those steps, however the steps are combined. It works because enthalpy is a STATE FUNCTION — ΔH depends only on the initial and final states of a system, not on the path taken between them. Any route from the same reactants to the same products, no matter how many intermediate steps, must add up to the same total ΔH.
How Soap Is Made You already know that a soap molecule has two ends — one that loves water and one that loves grease — and that this is what lets soap wash grease away. But where does that molecule actually come from? Soap is not dug up or
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Chemistry · L2 · How Soap Is Made — Saponification