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7: Chemical Reactions

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    • 7.2: Evidence of a Chemical Reaction
      This page covers chemical reactions, explaining how substances transform into new ones with altered properties through the breaking of bonds and rearrangement of atoms. It includes examples like rusting and combustion and discusses observable signs of reactions such as color changes and gas release. The page also differentiates between chemical and physical changes, offering exercises for better understanding.
    • 7.3: The Chemical Equation
      This page outlines the fundamental aspects of chemical reactions, detailing the identification of reactants and products, and the conversion of word equations to chemical equations. It defines chemical reactions as transformations involving bond changes and illustrates the structure of chemical equations, where reactants appear on the left and products on the right.
    • 7.4: How to Write Balanced Chemical Equations
      This page covers the essentials of balancing chemical equations, stressing the roles of coefficients and subscripts. It explains that subscripts represent atom counts in molecules and should remain unchanged, while coefficients can be modified to achieve balance.
    • 7.5: Aqueous Solutions and Solubility - Compounds Dissolved in Water
      This page provides an overview of electrolytes, categorizing them as strong or weak based on their dissociation in water. It explains ion-dipole interactions and the dissociation of ionic compounds, highlighting factors influencing solubility. The page outlines solubility rules, indicating that while most bromides are soluble except for PbBr2, and phosphates like Sr3(PO4)2 are insoluble, certain compounds are classified as soluble or insoluble.
    • 7.6: Precipitation Reactions
      This page covers precipitation reactions that form insoluble products when two solutions mix, exemplified by silver nitrate and potassium dichromate producing silver dichromate. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing strong electrolytes and applying solubility rules to predict reaction outcomes, noting that some mixtures, like sodium chloride and potassium bromide, do not react. The concepts discussed are crucial for isolating metals and improving recycling processes.
    • 7.7: Writing Chemical Equations for Reactions in Solution- Molecular, Complete Ionic, and Net Ionic Equations
      This page explores precipitation reactions, focusing on the interaction between barium chloride and sodium sulfate. It outlines the complete and net ionic equations, discussing the importance of spectator ions. The implications of net ionic equations in identifying key ions are emphasized, along with their application in testing for specific ions like sulfate and halides. The page also details the role of precipitates in quantitative analysis of solutions.
    • 7.8: Acid–Base and Gas Evolution Reactions
      This page covers neutralization reactions between acids and bases that produce salts and water, providing general reactions and examples like sodium and calcium hydroxide. It also introduces gas-evolution reactions, detailing how acids react with carbonates to yield carbon dioxide, water, and salts. Additionally, it highlights examples of hydrogen gas production from metal oxidation in acidic solutions, focusing on the conditions necessary for gas evolution in chemical reactions.
    • 7.9: Oxidation–Reduction Reactions
      This page covers key concepts in oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions, including electron transfer and oxidation numbers, alongside rules for their assignment and examples for clarity. It also addresses combustion reactions, focusing on reactions with oxygen that produce energy, specifically highlighting hydrocarbons as fuels and their combustion products.
    • 7.10: Classifying Chemical Reactions
      This page outlines the classification of chemical reactions into five main types: redox, acid-base, single replacement, double replacement, and combination. It details combination reactions where substances merge to form a single product, as well as decomposition reactions where compounds break down. Single replacement reactions involve element substitution in compounds.
    • 7.11: The Activity Series- Predicting Spontaneous Redox Reactions
      This page covers the activity series, which ranks metals and nonmetals by reactivity to predict single-replacement reactions. It contrasts sodium and silver's behavior in water, explaining that metals can only replace those lower in the series. Two tables illustrate the activity series for metals and nonmetals, with examples showcasing reactions of aluminum and zinc, and noting the lack of reaction of silver with hydrochloric acid.


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