Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chemistry
- Third Year
- Second Year
- Solutes, solvents and solutions
- a solute - the substance which dissolves.
Anmerkungen:
- i.e. salt in the sea (sodium chloride)
- a solvent - the substance which does the dissolving.
Anmerkungen:
- a solution - the mix of the solute and the solvent.
Anmerkungen:
- i.e. the sea, salt + water
2 elements mixed together but not chemically bonded
- solutions can be separated easily,
compounds cannot since they are 2
elements chemically bonded together
- an insoluble substance - a substance that cannot dissolve.
- Speeding up dissolving
- heating up
- stirring
- using a substance with smaller particles
- separation methods
- simple distillation - evaporate the solvent (i.e. water) and
condensate it, you are left with your solute and solvent.
- Elements
- an element - a chemical substance which cannot be broken down into anything simpler.
- Metals
- Properties
- shiny
- ductile
- malleable
- sonorous
- good conductor of heat/electricity
- solid
- (magnetic)
- hard
- heavy
- Reactivity and Displacement
- Reactivity - a measure of how
quickly a substance will react
- Reactivity series
Anmerkungen:
- - Metals in order of reactivity
- sodium
- calcium
- magnesium
- aluminium
- zinc
- iron
- tin
- lead
- copper
- silver
- gold
- platinum
- Displacement reaction - a reaction in which a
substance displaces and sets another
substance free from a compound
- i.e. iron + copper sulphate --- copper + iron sulphate
- Metals
- Extraction of Metals
- Metals found naturally on the ground are called native metals. They
are pure elements, i.e. platinum, gold
- Ores - Rocks that contain metals as a mixture of compounds, need to be broken down
to extract the metal.
- Have to be mined and collected, then decomposed to release the metal. The metals can only be extracted by:
- heat alone
- heat with carbon
- electrolysis