HCl is a strong acid and it nearly fully dissociates. By comparison, a weak acid such as acetic acid (CH3COOH) does not dissociate well in water;... View Article
Tertiary carbocations are more stable than secondary carbocations. Via an effect known as hyperconjugation. A neighbouring C-H bond will make it... View Article
Binding energy, the amount of energy needed to detach a particle from a particle system or to scatter all of the system's particles. For... View Article
Lead's high density makes it useful in X-ray devices and nuclear plants as a buffer against X-ray and gamma-ray radiation. Lead is also used as a... View Article
The change in enthalpy is always positive for an endothermic reaction. Heat is necessary in order to dissolve the ice cube, so the mechanism is... View Article
The property or strength of conducting heat, electricity, or sound is conductivity. Relevant conductance is sometimes named. Electricity is a... View Article
The predictions of the kinetic molecular theory do not necessarily obey actual gases. Although no volume is believed to inhabit the particles of... View Article
The energy you bring in if you happen to try to rip the nucleus to pieces is binding energy. The energy that a nucleus has is its potential... View Article
Heat is the amount of energy that is transmitted because of a change in temperature from one structure to its surroundings. Heat is the... View Article
A material is more dense in the solid than in the liquid state, as seen in most situations, the melting point will rise with increased pressure.... View Article
Hybridization is the combining of atomic orbitals to produce new orbitals of varying energies and shapes than the initial orbitals. Hybridization... View Article
Average: In Mathematics, the average is defined as the sum of all the given values divided by the total number of given numbers. If x1, x2, x3,... View Article
In Calculus, a mean value theorem states that if a function is differentiable on the interval (a, b), and continuous on the interval [a, b], then... View Article
The aniline amino group is ortho and para-directing, while meta-directing is aniline hydrogen chloride. The NH2 group in aniline is ortho and... View Article
Coupled reaction is a chemical reaction in which energy is moved from one side of the reaction to the other with a typical intermediate. The... View Article
The “nitronium ion” or the “nitryl cation” is the electrophile, NO2+. This is caused by a reaction between sulphuric acid and nitric acid. As... View Article
A bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (SN2) reaction is a form of nucleophilic substitution whereby an electron deficient electrophilic core is... View Article
Originally, the term oxidation was used to describe reactions where an element reacts with oxygen. Antoine Lavoisier first used the term... View Article
Hyperconjugation (or σ-conjugation) refers in organic chemistry to the delocalization of electrons with the presence of mainly σ-character bonds.... View Article
