Chem Final

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Which statement describes a chemical property of water ?
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Under the proper conditions, water will breal apart into hydrogen and oxygen gas.
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A science student wants to use distillation to separate a mixture of two substances in the liquid state. For the student to be successful, which property should be significantly different between the two liquids?
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Boiling point
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A student is measuring the properties of a sample of ethanol. Which is an extensive property of the sample?
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Mass
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Which statement describes a physical change
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A sculpture cast a statue in molton bronze and allows it to harden
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Is the freezing of mercury in reversible or irreversible physical change
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It is reversible because solid mercury can be melted to form liquid mercury again
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A few spoonfuls of sugar crystals are mixed thoroughly until dissolved into water. Classify this mixture
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A homogeneous mixture of a solid and a liquid
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Which set is an example of an element, a compound, and a mixture
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Nitrogen, table sugar, cough syrup
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What is identified by the chemical formula C6H12
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A compound made of two elements
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How are compounds different from elements
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Compounds can be broken apart by chemical means into simpler substances but elements cannot
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How can you distinguish a pure substance from a mixture
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A pure substance has a fixed composition; a mixture has a composition that may vary
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In a chemical reaction how does the mass of the reactants compare with the mass of the products
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The total mass of the products always equals the total mass of the reactants
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When a chemical change is taking place, which change can often be observed
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All of the above
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A horizontal row of the periodic table is usually referred to as a
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period
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A golf ball has more mass than a tennis ball because it
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Contains more matter
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How do you vapors and gases differ?
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Generally, a gas is in the gaseous state at room temperature and a vapor is in either the solid-state or liquid state at room temperature.
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Which of the following can be classified as a mixture?
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Pure air
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Which of the following is a heterogeneous mixture?
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soil
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An example of a homogeneous mixture is
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Stainless steel
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Which of the following is true about compounds?
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They are substances
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Determine the number of significant figures in this measurement: 11 soccer players
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Unlimited
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Three measurements are each close to one another, but differ greatly from the accepted, correct value for the measurement. Which of the following best describes these measurements?
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They have good precision, but poor accuracy
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What is the number of significant figures in the measurement 5.00 cubic meters?
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3
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What temperature units do scientist commonly used
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Degrees Celsius and kelvins
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What is the volume of a paperback book 21CM tall, 12 CM wide, and 3.5 CM thick?
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8.8 * 10^2 cm^3
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Which of the following shows the correct conversion of 170ยฐC to Kelvin's?
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443 K
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What is the density of helium in grams per liter?
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1.7...
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How does the density of each piece compared to the density of the original gold bar
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The density of each piece equals to be density of the original bar
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Thermal substances, how does the density of a substance vary with temperature
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Density decreases with temperature
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What is the speed of light in kilometers/hour?
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1.08 * 10^9
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What is the number of significant figures in the measurement 0.070 020 m?
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5
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A measurement is accurate when it is
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Very close to the excepted value for the measurement
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In the measurement 0.503 L, which digit is the estimated digit?
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3
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What is the measurement 111.009 mm rounded off to four significant digits?
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111.0 mm
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The weight of an object
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depends on its location
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Because the atomic mass of hydrogen is 1.0079 amu, what can be concluded about the two isotopes?
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Hydrogen-1 is by far the more abundant isotope
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What is the average atomic mass of the element?
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10.81 amu
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How did Democritus characterize atoms?
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as indivisible and indestructible.
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How does the Rutherford model describe the structure of atoms ?
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A dense, positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons
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What did Thomson contribute to atomic theory?
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The discovery of negatively charged particles now called electrons
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How do you calculate the number of neutrons in an atom ?
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Subtract the atomic number and the mass number
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What does the number represent and platinum - 194?
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The mass number of the isotope
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The isotopic composition of boron in nature is 19.9% and 80.1%. Using isotopic composition, calculate the atomic mass of the element boron
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10.8 amu
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How is atomic number different from mass number?
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Atomic number equals the number of protons; mass number equals the number of protons and neutrons
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Which is one reason why the atomic masses of elements are generally not whole numbers?
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The atomic mass of an element is the weighted average of the masses of its isotopes
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Which of the following was originally a tenet of Dalton's atomic theory, but had to be revised about a century ago?
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Atoms are tiny indivisible particles
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Which of the following is true about subatomic particles
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The mass of a neutron nearly equals the mass of a proton
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Which is a useful rule for writing electron configurations ?
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An atomic orbital may describe a most two electrons
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What does the quantum mechanical model determine about electrons in atoms?
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An electrons allowed energy levels and the likelihood of finding it in various locations
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How can electrons in an atom move from one energy level to another?
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By gaining or losing just the right amount of energy, or a quantum
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Which is not one of the three rules for writing the electron configurations of elements?
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Law of conservation of energy
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In Bohr's model where are the electrons and protons located
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The electrons move around the protons, which are at the center of the atom
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How does the energy of an electron change when the electron moves closer to the nucleus?
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It decreases
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The principal quantum number indicates what property of an electron?
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energy level