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Collin Li

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Alphabet game (chemistry)
« on: December 22, 2007, 01:05:08 pm »
Instead of corrupting the Biology Alphabet game, I'll start one for Chemistry.

I might introduce new terms that aren't in VCE Chemistry now and then, and I will briefly provide an explanation so you can learn something new :)

To start:
adsorption
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 01:09:27 pm »
butane or butene (is there such thing?? I can't remember lol)
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2007, 01:13:53 pm »
Both are right, butane is an alkane, and butene is an alkene.



Chromatography
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2007, 01:17:13 pm »
Disaccaride
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2007, 01:37:56 pm »
Electron! (our favourite god-damned thing :))
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2007, 02:48:40 pm »
Faraday: F

:)

One  faraday of electricity corresponds to the  charge on 6.022 x 10 23 electrons, or 96,487 coulombs.

The charge on one mole of electrons, symbol F
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2007, 03:16:56 pm »
whoa! back in my day, a faraday was worth 96,500 coulombs. Curse VCAA for wrong information!

Gallium. I can't think of anything else, so I'll rattle off elements. This could get nasty.
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2007, 03:24:39 pm »
Hafnium


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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2007, 03:45:54 pm »
Ion. :o

Back in my day, avogradro's constant was 6.023E23 to 4 dp
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2007, 06:05:12 pm »
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2007, 09:32:48 pm »
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2007, 09:40:35 pm »
limestone (CaCO3)

A small part of the carbon cycle.
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2007, 09:49:12 pm »
^ you could have gone on about ligands again :P

mole (my words are so simple :K)
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2007, 09:51:13 pm »
neutron! (one subatomic particle left, you better not leave it out or else we'll become negative overall)
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Re: Alphabet game (chemistry)
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2007, 10:03:09 pm »
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