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Why is cyclohexene able to react with bromine water, but Benzene isn't

Cyclohexene's structure is 6 carbons bonded in a ring, with a single double bond existing between carbons 1 and 6Benzene is also a 6 carbon ring, however it has a delocalised electron ring around the stru...

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What is the order of decreasing acidity for the molecules phenol, ethanoic acid and ethanol? Why?

Ethanoic acid is the most acidic of the three. This is because once ethanoic acid has lost a proton the negative charge can be spread over two oxygen atoms via two resonance forms. Oxygen atoms are electr...

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State what is meant by the term covalent bond

Atoms that share electrons due to the electrostatic attraction between the negatively charged pair of electrons and positively charged nuclei.

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Why does first ionisation energy decrease as you go down a Group in the Periodic Table?

There are two reasons: increasing atomic size and increasing shielding effect.
Increasing atomic size - As you go down the Group, the atom size becomes larger, therefore the electron that must be rem...

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1a) Describe the difference between strong and weak acids. 1b) HCl is a strong acid. Draw the spin diagram for a chlorine atom.

1a) Strong acids fully dissociate in water, whereas weak acids only partially dissociate in water - thus forming an equilibrium mixture.
1b) See diagram.

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