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How do some toxic chemicals cause environmental and health problems? (2 Marks)

Persists in the environment/soil/water. Enters the food chain and builds up the higher up the chain you move. Can enter human tissue eventually.

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Describe how sigma and pi bonds form and describe how single and double bonds differ.

The sigma bond results due to the overlapping of orbitals along an inter-nuclearaxis. In other words if two s orbitals are directly overlapping, then the bond formed is linear b...

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The following equilibrium is set up in a glass syringe. 2(NO2) (brown gas) ‹-› N2O4 (colourless gas) ∆H = -58 kJmol-1. Using le Chatelier's principle, predict and explain how heating up the mixture would affect it's appearance.

At first this question can seem confusing, but by breaking it down we can better understand what we are being asked to do. Firstly, we need to recall le Chatelier's principle - that an equalibrium will sh...

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Briefly describe the concept of electronegativity and explain why CCl4 is a non-polar molecule

Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to attract a pair of electrons in a covalent bond. The Pauling scale assigns values to this tendency for each element in the periodic table ranging from the lo...

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Please give the definition of Le Chatilier's principle. Use this to explain what would happen if you increased the temperature of an equilibrium in which the forwards reaction is exothermic.

Le Chatilier's principle states that, if a change is made to a system at equilibrium, the position of equilibrium will shift to oppose that change. If you increase the temperature of a system where the fo...

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