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Flashcards by siobhan.quirk, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by siobhan.quirk
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Volatility | the ease that a liquid turns into a gas. Volatility increases as boiling point decreases |
| Reflux | continual boiling and condensing of a reaction mixture to ensure that the reaction takes places without the contents of the flask boiling dry |
| Esterification | the reaction of an alcohol with a carboxyliv acid to prduce an ester and water |
| Dehydration | a elimination reaction in which water is removed from a saturated molecule to make an unsaturated molecule |
| Hydrolysis | a reaction with water or aqueous hydroxide ions that breaks a chemical compound into two compounds |
| Nucleophilic substitution | a type of substitution reaction in which a nucleophile is attracted to an electron-deficient centre where it donates a pair of electrons to form a new covalent bond |
| Limiting reagent | a substance in a chemical reaction that runs out first |
| Molecular ion, M+ | positive ion formed in mass spectrometry when a molecule loses an electron |
| Fragmentation | the process in mass spectrometry that causes a positive ion to split into pieces, one of which is a positive fragment ion |
| Electrophile | electron pair acceptor |
| Nucleophile | electron pair donor |
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