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What is the effect of a catalyst in an equilibrium process?

A catalyst provides an alternative pathway for a reaction to take place and therefore helping the reaction to take place at a lower activation energy. In an equilibrium process, a catalyst has no effect o...

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What are covalent bonds?

Covalent bonds are a type of chemical bond formed by a shared pair of electrons between atoms.

Covalent bonds tend to occur between non-metal type atoms ...

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What are optical isomers?

Optical isomerism is a paritcular type of steroeisomerism (stereoisomers are molecule that are made up of atoms joined up in the same order so have the same formula but are arranged di...

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What happens when some alkali is added to a buffer solution?

The dissociation of the weak acid ‘HA’ would be shown as:HA (aq) ⇌ H⁺ (aq) + A^– (aq)Adding alkali will add OH^- ions to the solution. These will react with the H⁺

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Using chemical reagents in test tubes, distinguish between isomers: A CH3CO(CH2)2CHOH, B CH3CH(OH)(CH2)2CHO and C C(CH3)2OHCOCH3

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*First draw out each compounds' structural formula (an image of the "shape and arrangement of the atoms in space"), then identify all functional groups in each compound....

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