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Describe the three main types of bonding?

Ionic bonding - occurs between a metal an a none metal. Electrons are transferred between two atoms to form ions - atoms with either a positive or negative charge. Ionic bonding occurs because of th...

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List the factors that affect the rate of reaction

The rate of a reaction increases if:the temperature is increasedthe concentration of a dissolved reactant is increasedsolid reactants are broken into

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How does increasing chain length alter the melting and boiling temperatures?

For a substance to melt or boil, heat energy must be supplied. This is to overcome Van der Waals forces. As the length of a chain increases, there are more Van der Waals forces present due to the chain ge...

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Why does phenol react more readily with bromine than benzene?

The oxygen on the OH (of the phenol) has a lone pair which it donates into the delocalised pi system of the ringThis activates the ring and there is now a high electron density.This is now strong enough t...

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Explain: 1. Why butanoic acid has a higher boiling point than butan1-ol? 2. Why carboxylic acids of short chain length are more soluble in water than those with longer carbon chain length?

1.Butanoic acid has stronger intermolecular forces (hydrogen bonding) because it has two highly electronegative oxygen atoms in its structure, whereas butan-1-ol has only one. Therefore t...

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