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What Is Air Made Of? Air feels like nothing, but it is not a single substance — it is a mixture of several gases, each doing its own job. The proportions barely change from place to place, which is why scientists can give air a fairly fixed
An alloy is a mixture of a metal with one or more other elements — often another metal, sometimes carbon. It's mixed on purpose to give the metal better properties than it would have on its own.
Chemistry
Chemistry · L2 · Alloys — Mixing Metals for a Purpose
What has to be true of a semiconductor particle's size, relative to the exciton Bohr radius, for quantum confinement effects to become significant?
AThe particle must be much larger than the exciton Bohr radiusBThe particle must be smaller than the exciton Bohr radiusCThe particle's size relative to the exciton Bohr radius makes no differenceDThe particle must exactly equal the exciton Bohr radius, and no other size works
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Chemistry · L5 · Nanomaterials and Quantum Confinement
What two problems does a molecular docking program solve for each candidate compound?
AOnly the ligand's molecular weight and solubilityBSearch (finding the ligand's binding pose) and scoring (estimating that pose's binding affinity)COnly synthesizing the compound computationallyDOnly predicting the compound's toxicity
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Chemistry · L5 · Computational Docking & Drug Design
In the half-reaction method for acidic solution, in what order should O and H be balanced relative to balancing non-O/H atoms?
ABalance non-O/H atoms first, then O with H2O, then H with H+BBalance H with H+ first, then O, then all other atomsCBalance charge first, before any atomsDThe order does not matter
EDTA Complexometric Titration Formation constants (Kf) show that a ligand can bind a metal ion strongly enough to pull an otherwise-unfavourable equilibrium along with it. Complexometric titration puts that same chemistry to direct, quantit
What is one of the two big patterns that make transition metals (like iron, copper, chromium, and manganese) stand out from main-group metals (like sodium and magnesium)?1 / 10
Most transition metals can exist in more than one oxidation state across different compounds — for example, iron forms both Fe²⁺ and Fe³⁺ compounds. A main-group metal like sodium or magnesium essentially only ever forms one fixed oxidation state (Na⁺, Mg²⁺).
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Chemistry · L3 · Transition Metals — Variable States and Color
What does a corrosive hazard symbol warn you about?
AThe substance catches fire easilyBThe substance can damage skin, eyes, or metal on contactCThe substance makes other materials burn more fiercelyDThe substance is harmless in small amounts
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Chemistry · L2 · Chemical Safety and Hazard Symbols
What is a carbene, and what are its two possible spin states?1 / 8
A carbene is a neutral carbon species with only six valence electrons and two non-bonding electrons on that carbon, making it strongly electrophilic and highly reactive. Those two non-bonding electrons can occupy the same orbital with paired spins (singlet carbene, one filled sp²-like orbital and one empty p orbital) or occupy two different orbitals with parallel spins (triplet carbene, effectively a 1,1-diradical) — the two spin states have distinct geometries, reactivities, and selectivities.