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The mixture of cryolite and aluminium oxide has a lower melting point than pure aluminium oxide. This means a lower amount of energy is required to establish effective conditions for electrolysis and thus...

If we know the chemistry for a reaction we only need to know quantities from one of our reactants to calculate a product yield. For instance, in a reaction to make hydrogen peroxide, we can calculate the ...

Hydrocarbons are long chained, non-polar molecules of Carbon and Hydrogen. As the chain length increases the boiling point of oil increases and the intermolecular forces get stronger. At smaller chain len...

Ionic structures form giant lattices with many electrostatic attractions between oppositely charged ions. Covalent molecules have strong covalent bonds involving a shared pair of electrons.

The rate of reaction will increase. Increased temperature causes the particles to move faster, increasing the number of collisions between the particles. More particles have energy exceeding the activatio...