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What is mass defect (Δm)?1 / 7
The difference between the sum of the masses of a nucleus's separate, free protons and neutrons and the actual (smaller) mass of the bound nucleus. It's the mass that seems to be 'missing' once the nucleons are bound together.
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Chemistry · L4 · Nuclear Chemistry — Mass Defect & Binding Energy
What is a polarization curve, and what does its overall downward-sloping shape represent?1 / 8
A polarization curve plots a fuel cell's operating cell voltage against the current density it delivers; it always slopes downward from the theoretical open-circuit (equilibrium, zero-current) voltage because drawing any real current necessarily incurs voltage losses (overpotentials) at the electrodes and across the cell — the curve is, in effect, a direct visualization of how much of the cell's theoretical thermodynamic voltage is actually lost to real-world kinetic and transport limitations at a given operating current.
A central metal ion (usually a transition metal) surrounded by a fixed number of ligands — molecules or ions that donate an electron pair to the metal. The metal acts as a Lewis acid, the ligands as Lewis bases.
AThe fruits melt together into one new fruitBYou mix different fruits together, but each stays itselfCThe fruits turn into juiceDYou cook the fruits until they disappear
A Smell Is Made of Tiny Particles When you smell fresh cookies, a flower, or even a skunk, you are not just imagining it. Tiny, invisible particles are coming off that thing and drifting through the air until some of them reach your nose. Y
Identifying the unknown Qualitative analysis asks a different question from most of chemistry so far — not 'how much?' but 'what is it?'. A handful of simple, fast tests — a flame test, a few drops of reagent turning cloudy, a gas relightin
The more a host's binding sites are already arranged — both sterically and electronically — to complement a given guest before binding occurs, the stronger and more selective the resulting complex will be. A highly preorganized host pays little conformational or entropic 'cost' to reach its binding geometry, because it is already there.
Polyprotic acids: stepwise dissociation, successive Ka values, and multi-equivalence-point titrations A polyprotic acid loses more than one proton, but it does so one proton at a time, through a series of distinct equilibria — each with its
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Chemistry · L4 · Polyprotic acids: stepwise dissociation, successive Ka values, and multi-equivalence-point titrations
Aromatic Chemistry & Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Benzene looks, on paper, like it should behave as three alkenes stitched into a ring — reactive C=C bonds ready to add bromine or hydrogen the way any alkene would. It doesn't. Benzen
Materials Around Us Everything is made of a material. A material is what a thing is made from. We choose materials because of what they can do. Think about a cup. It could be plastic, glass, or metal. Each one feels different and works diff
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Chemistry · L1 · Materials and What They Are Good For
Where Do Materials Come From? Every material comes from somewhere. Some materials grow or are found in nature. Others are made by people. We can sort materials by asking: where did this come from? Natural Materials A natural material grows
Ethene polymerizes into polyethylene by addition polymerization. What makes this possible?
AEthene has two reactive end groupsBEthene has a C=C double bond that opens up to link monomers togetherCEthene loses a water molecule at each linkDEthene is itself a natural polymer
How Soap Cleans You already know that sugar and salt dissolve in water, but oil and grease do not. Grease just sits on top of water, no matter how much you stir it. So how do we ever get a greasy pan clean? The answer is soap. Soap Has Two