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A solution of ethanoic acid is made by dissolving 3g of pure liquid propanoic acid in 500cm^3 water. Given the pH of the solution is 2.98, calculate Ka.

Before using numbers from the question: 1)What is pH? pH = -log[H+] Square brackets mean concentration of H+ so we need to convert given pH to [H+] in the weak acid coefficient 2) To...

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Explain why water has a higher boiling point than hydrogen iodide.

Water has a greater boiling point than hydrogen iodide as water has hydrogen bonds, whereas iodine only has permenant dipole-dipole interactions. Hydrogen bonds are stronger than permenant dipole-dipole i...

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What is Hund's rule?

Electrons occupy every orbital in each subshell once and then occupy the full orbital with both electrons 

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What is the charge of a nucleus?

Neutral 

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How do I work out what the ionic charge is for different elements in the periodic table?

The useful thing is that different elements have been grouped together on the periodic table so that it's easy to see which ones share something in common. Group 1 elements become 1+, Group 2 becomes 2+, ...

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