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Describe, with the aid of diagrams, what hydrogen bonding is in water.

Hydrogen bonding is a strong dipole-dipole attraction between a lone pair of electrons on a highly electronegative atom, such as oxygen or nitrogen, and a hydrogen atom on another molecule. In the case of...

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Explain the nuclear model

The atom consists of three sub-atomic particles: Protons; Neutrons and electrons. Protons and neutrons are in the nucleus of the atom and the electrons occupy the electron shells around the nucleus.

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Georgia has a bucket of sandy sea water, and wants to separate it out into it's components: sea-salt, water and sand. What steps should she take to achieve this? How can she check at the end that the water is pure?

First, she should filter the mixture using a filter funnel and filter paper to remove the sand. Then, she should distill the remaining solution, using a bunsen burner, a distillation column and a condensi...

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