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Definitions

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1 atom the smallestpieceofelement thatstill canberecognised as theelement
element a substance thatcannotbebroken down intoanythingsimpler bychemicalmeans atomsofthesame
atomicnumber
moleculea particlemadeof twoor atoms bonded together bycovenant bonds fixednumber ofatoms
4 ion chargedparticleformedwhenanatomgains orlooseselectrons

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1 coeffientthetechnicaltermforthenumberwrittenin frontofspecies whenbalancinganequation
2 spectatorion anions that istherebeforeandafterbutdoesn'ttakepartinthereaction
displacementreaction a reactionin whichone element replacesanotherlessreactiveelement in a compound
precipitation reaction a reactionin which aninsolublesolid is formed when two solutions are mixed

IC
I relativeatomicmassAr theweighedaverage massofanatomcompared to of themass of anatom of
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2molarmassthemasspermole of a substance ithasthesymbol Mandtheunits moh g
3avocarto constant6.02x102mol thenumber ofparticles inonemotofsubstance
moletheammount ofsubstance thatcontains thesamenumber ofparticlesasthenumber of carbonatoms in exactly
12gof C mo
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S hydratecompoundcontainingwater crystalisation
6 theoreticalyieldthemaximumpossiblemassof a product in a reactionassumingcompletereactionan
actualyieldtheactualmassobtainedin a reaction
theactualyielddividedbythe theoreticalyield expressedas a precentage
precentageyield
atomeconomy themolarmass of thedesiredproductdivided bythesumof molarmassesexpressed as a precentage

ID
empirical formulathesmallestwhole number ratioofatoms ofeachelement ina compound
molecularformulatheactualnumber ofatoms of eachelement in a molecule

IE
molarvolumethevolumeoccupied by 1mole ofanygas thisis normally 24dm or 29000cm at vtip
solute a substance that is dissolved
solvent a substance that dissolves asolute
solution a solute dissolved in a solution
smassconcentration the massofthesolute divided bythevolume of solution
molar concentration theamount inmoiofthesolute dividedbythevolume ofthe solution
millionthenumber ofpartsofone substance inonemillionparts ofanother substance a measureused to describe
partsper
chemical concentration usually parts refers tomasses ofbothsubstancesorto volumesofboth substances

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