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Intermolecular forces & molecular polarity — vectors, polarizability, and boiling-point trends London dispersion, dipole-dipole, and hydrogen bonding explain WHICH forces act between molecules. This note goes one step further and asks HOW S
Energy in the Water Cycle You already know that a chemical reaction can be exothermic — releasing energy and getting warmer — or endothermic — absorbing energy and getting colder — and that a simple touch test on the container can tell you
Statement of the Third Law The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a perfect, pure crystalline substance approaches zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero: At 0 K, a perfect crystal has its particles locked into
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Chemistry · L5 · The Third Law and Absolute Entropy
Faraday's laws of electrolysis: from current and time to mass deposited The earlier qualitative picture of electrolysis established which ion goes to which electrode, and what happens to it there — cations reduced at the cathode, anions oxi
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Chemistry · L4 · Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis: quantifying charge, moles of electrons, and mass deposited
What is a 'strategic bond' in retrosynthetic analysis?
AAny bond that can theoretically be disconnected using a known reactionBA disconnection chosen because it maximally simplifies the target, e.g. by revealing symmetry or enabling a convergent couplingCThe first bond formed in the forward synthesisDA bond that must never be broken during synthesis planning
SEC couples an electrochemical perturbation (a controlled potential or current) with a simultaneous spectroscopic measurement (UV-vis, IR, Raman, EPR, or NMR) of the same sample volume, so that the electronic or structural identity of a species can be correlated directly with its formal potential rather than inferred indirectly from a voltammetric peak shape alone.
At the same temperature, why does a lighter gas molecule move faster, on average, than a heavier one?
ABecause all gases have the same average kinetic energy at a given T, so a smaller mass requires a larger average speed to keep KE = (1/2)mv^2 the sameBBecause lighter molecules experience less gravityCBecause heavier molecules always have lower temperatureDThere is no such relationship — speed is unrelated to mass
Lattice energy: charge, radius, and two ways to calculate it The Born-Haber cycle (covered as a Hess's-Law application elsewhere) is one way to obtain a lattice energy: measure everything else in the cycle experimentally and solve for the o
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Chemistry · L4 · Lattice energy: what controls its size, and two ways to calculate it
What does the Hartree-Fock method approximate the many-electron wavefunction as?
AA single Slater determinant of one-electron orbitals, solved self-consistentlyBAn exact sum over every possible electron configurationCA single electron density function of 3 coordinatesDA classical trajectory of point charges
Reading Hazard Symbols Chemical containers and lab bottles carry hazard pictograms — small pictures inside a diamond or square that warn you what kind of danger is inside, before you even open the label's fine print. A container can show mo
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Chemistry · L2 · Chemical Safety and Hazard Symbols