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➢ Biochemistry
○ application of chemistry to the
study of biological processes
at the cellular and molecular
level
➢ Nuclear Chemistry
○ deals with
radioactivity, nuclear process,
and transformations in the
nuclei of atoms
➢ Geological Chemistry
○ uses the tools and principles
of chemistry to explain the
mechanisms behind
major geological systems
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J. MIXTURE
● HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES
○ A heterogeneous mixture is
a mixture that contains visibly
different phases (parts), each
of which has different
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○ Examples: sugar-water
mixture, air
K. ELEMENTS
○ H2O (water)
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● SI System
(System Internationale)
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Measure of Weight
A. UNCERTAINTY OF
MEASUREMENTS
REASONS:
● Limitations or flaws of measuring ● Counting Significant Figures
device ○ RULE 1. All non-zero digits in
● Improper calibration a measured number are
● Human factor significant. Only a zero could
indicate that rounding
occurred.
B. RELIABILITY IN
MEASUREMENTS
● PRECISION
○ when the trials made are
same/close to each other.
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❖ Leading Zeros
○ RULE 2. Leading zeros in
decimal numbers are NOT
significant.
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As chemists learned to measure the amounts Dalton’s theory explains several simple laws
of materials that reacted with one another to of chemical combination that were known at
his time.
make new substances, the ground was laid
for a chemical atomic theory. The following ● Law of Definite Proportion or
Composition states that compounds
are the postulates of Dalton’s Atomic Theory:
have a definite composition,
regardless of how the samples were
● Elements are composed of indivisible prepared or where they originated.
particles called atoms which maintain For example, the carbon dioxide (𝐶𝑂2
their identity in all physical and
chemical changes. ) produced from the combustion of
● All atoms of a given element are gasoline has the same proportion of
identical; the atoms of different carbon and oxygen as the gas that
elements are different and have we exhale.
different properties including masses. ● The Law of Conservation of Mass
● Atoms of an element are not changed states that during a physical or
into different types of atoms by chemical change, the total mass of all
chemical reactions; atoms are neither substances before and after the
created nor destroyed in chemical change are the same. Atoms are
reactions. neither created nor destroyed, thus,
● Compounds are formed when atoms the total mass remains the same.
of more than one element combine; a
given compound always has the A good theory should not only explain the
same relative number and kind of known facts but should also predict new ones.
atoms. ● The Law of Multiple Proportions
states that if two elements A and B
combine to form more than one
compound, the masses of B that can
combine with a given mass of A are
in the ratio of small whole numbers.
Examples are water (H2O) and
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Informing
water, 8.0 g of oxygen combined with
1.0 g of hydrogen while in hydrogen
peroxide, there is 16.0 g of oxygen
per 1.0 g of hydrogen. In other words,
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the ratio of the mass of oxygen per particle that has no charge
gram of hydrogen in the two associated with it, that is, it is
compounds is 2:1. neutral.
Charge -1 +1 0
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this, the element can be also defined as a pure They must have the same number of protons
substance in which all atoms present have the and electrons, but they can differ in the
same atomic number. number of neutrons.
● Atomic number (Z) is the number of ● Isotopes are atoms of an element that
protons in the nucleus of an atom. have the same number of protons
and the same number of electrons
atomic number = number of protons = but different numbers of neutrons.
number of electrons They always have the same atomic
number and different mass numbers.
● Mass number (A) is the sum of the number ● Isotopes of an element are identified
of protons and the number of neutrons in or named in two ways:
the nucleus of an atom. ○ Name of element – Mass
number
○ Isotopic symbol
mass number = number of protons (atomic
number) + number of neutrons
carbon - 6 6 7
13
carbon - 6 6 8
14
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assessment of
Abnormal cells are more susceptible to peripheral
radiation damage than normal cells because vascular
abnormal cells divide more frequently. disease
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4 4 (s, p, d, and f 4s, 4p, 4d, 4f Orbitals have distinct shapes that are related
sublevels) to the type of subshell in which they are
found.
Electron orbital or atomic orbital is a region
of space within an electron subshell where an
electron with specific energy is most likely to
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they have opposite spins. No two Using the information on a periodic table, one
electrons in the same atom can have can quickly determine the number of protons
the same quantum numbers. and electrons for atoms of an element.
However, no information concerning neutrons
Electron configuration of an atom describes is available from a periodic table; mass
how the electrons are distributed among the numbers are not part of the information given
subshells. Electron configurations are not because they are not unique to an element.
written out in words; rather, a shorthand The location of an element within the periodic
system with symbols is used. Subshells table is specified by giving its period number
containing electrons, listed in order of and group number.
increasing energy (Aufbau principle), are
designated by using a number-letter ● Period is a horizontal row of
combination (1s, 2s, or 2p). A superscript elements in the periodic table. For
following each subshell designation indicates identification purposes, the periods are
the number of electrons in that subshell. numbered sequentially with Arabic
numbers, starting at the top of the
Orbital diagram is a notation that shows how periodic table.
many electrons an atom has in each of its
occupied electron orbitals. ● Group is a vertical column of
elements in the periodic table.
Elements in the same group have the
V. ELECTRONIC same chemical properties. There are
STRUCTURE AND two notations in use for designating
individual periodic-table groups.
PERIODICITY
○ Roman numerals and the
A. THE PERIODIC TABLE letters A and B
○ Arabic numbers (1 through 18)
Periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the
elements in order of increasing atomic number The elements can be classified in several
such that elements having similar chemical ways. The two most common classification
properties are positioned in vertical columns. system are the following:
Within the table, each element is represented ● A system based on selected physical
by a rectangular box that contains the symbol, properties of elements.
atomic number and atomic mass of the
element. ○ Metal is an element that has
the characteristic properties of
luster, thermal conductivity,
electrical conductivity, and
malleability.
○ Nonmetal is an element
characterized by the absence
of the properties of luster,
thermal conductivity, electrical
conductivity, and malleability.
○ Metalloids are elements which
have the properties of both
metals and nonmetals.
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C. PERIODIC VARIATION IN
ATOMIC PROPERTIES
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