General Chemistry MCQ

What is the definition of active transport?

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Correct Answer: The movement of molecules or ions from a region of lower concentration to higher concentration; requires energy

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What is the minimum amount of energy needed for a chemical reaction to occur?

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Correct Answer: Activation energy

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What is the maximum energy point in a chemical reaction called?

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Correct Answer: Activated complex

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What is the name for the element with atomic number 89?

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Correct Answer: Actinium

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Which group does Actinium belong to?

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Correct Answer: Actinide

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How many actinide elements are there?

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Correct Answer: 14

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According to the common properties, which element is NOT an actinide?

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Correct Answer: Thorium

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What is an acidic solution?

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Correct Answer: An aqueous solution with a pH less than 7.0

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What is the acid dissociation constant?

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Correct Answer: A quantitative measure of how strong an acid is.

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What is the purpose of acid-base titration?

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Correct Answer: To find the concentration of an acid or base.

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What is the equivalence point in an acid-base titration?

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Correct Answer: The point at which the concentrations of the acid and base are equal

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Indicators that change color when the concentration of hydrogen or hydroxide ions changes in an aqueous solution are called what?

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Correct Answer: Acid-base indicators

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What is an acid anhydride?

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Correct Answer: A nonmetal oxide that reacts with water to form an acidic solution.

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What does accuracy refer to in measurement?

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Correct Answer: The closeness of a measurement to a true or accepted value.

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What does the term 'absorptivity' mean?

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Correct Answer: Absorption cross section of extinction coefficient

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What is the absorbance of a solution per unit path length and concentration?

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Correct Answer: Absorbance

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What does an absorption spectrum show?

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Correct Answer: The amount of absorption as a function of wavelength.

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What is the absorption spectrum?

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Correct Answer: Graph of amount of absorption as a function of wavelength.

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What is the technique used to determine concentration and structure of a sample based on which wavelengths of liquid are absorbed?

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Correct Answer: Absorption spectroscopy

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What is the process by which atoms, ions, or molecules enter a bulk phase?

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Correct Answer: Absorption

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What is the temperature of absolute zero?

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Correct Answer: 0 K or -273.15°C

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What is absolute zero?

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Correct Answer: The lowest possible state at which matter can exist, 0 K or -273.15°C.

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What type of uncertainty is this?

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Correct Answer: Absolute uncertainty

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What is absolute uncertainty?

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Correct Answer: The uncertainty of a scientific measurement, given in the same units as the measurement.

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What is the name of the unit used to measure absolute temperature?

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Correct Answer: Kelvin

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What is absolute error?

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Correct Answer: Expression of the uncertainty or inaccuracy of a measurement

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What is the common name for high purity ethanol or ethyl alcohol?

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Correct Answer: Absolute alcohol

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What is the axial direction?

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Correct Answer: One of two directions pointing from the center of a trigonal bipyramid along its axis

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What is the value of Avogadro's law equation when the temperature is 0 degrees celsius and the pressure is 1 atm?

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Correct Answer: Vm = 22.4

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What does Avogadro's law equation state?

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Correct Answer: Vm = specific constant (depending on T, P; independent of gas)

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What is Avogadro's number?

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Correct Answer: 6.02 x 1023

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What is Avogadro's law?

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Correct Answer: Equal volumes of any two gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules.

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What is atomic theory?

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Correct Answer: An explanation of the structure of matter in terms of different combinations of very small particles (atoms)

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What is the symbol for a newly discovered element?

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Correct Answer: A temporary name with a three letter notation

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What is the atomic symbol for the element sodium?

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Correct Answer: Na

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What is an atomic orbital?

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Correct Answer: A wave function for an electron in an atom

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The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is called what?

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Correct Answer: Atomic number

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What is the atomic number of carbon?

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Correct Answer: 6

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What is the atomic mass unit?

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Correct Answer: A mass unit equal to exactly one-twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 atom

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What is the value of an atomic mass unit?

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Correct Answer: 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom

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What does the atomic mass of an element express?

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Correct Answer: The average atomic mass for the naturally occurring element, expressed in atomic mass units

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What does the atomic mass of an element represent?

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Correct Answer: The average atomic mass for the naturally occurring element, expressed in atomic mass units.

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What is an atom?

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Correct Answer: An extremely small particle of matter that retains its identity during chemical reactions.

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What is a colloid in which the dispersed phase consists of micelles called?

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Correct Answer: Association colloid

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What is the Arrhenius equation?

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Correct Answer: K = Ae-Ea/RT

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What is an aromatic hydrocarbon?

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Correct Answer: A hydrocarbon that contains a benzene ring or similar structural feature

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What are antibonding orbitals?

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Correct Answer: Orbitals having zero values in the region between two nuclei

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What is the anode?

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Correct Answer: The electrode at which oxidation occurs.

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What is an anion?

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Correct Answer: A negatively charged ion

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What is the quantum number that distinguishes orbitals of given n having different shapes?

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Correct Answer: Angular momentum quantum number (l)

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What is the maximum value that the angular momentum quantum number can have?

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Correct Answer: N - 1

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What is an amphoteric oxide?

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Correct Answer: An oxide that has both acidic and basic properties

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What is amphoteric hydroxide?

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Correct Answer: A metal hydroxide that reacts with both bases and acids

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What is another term for 'amphiprotic species'?

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Correct Answer: A species that can act as either an acid or a base

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What is a amphiprotic species?

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Correct Answer: A species that can act as either an acid or a base.

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What is the base unit of current in the International System?

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Correct Answer: Ampere

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What is an amorphous solid?

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Correct Answer: A solid that has a disordered structure

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What is an amino acid?

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Correct Answer: A compound containing an amino group and a carboxyl group.

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What are the functional groups present in an amino acid?

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Correct Answer: —NH2 and —COOH

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What is Amine?

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Correct Answer: A compound that is structurally derived by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms of ammonia with hydrocarbon groups

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What is an amide?

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Correct Answer: A compound derived from the reaction of ammonia, or a primary or secondary amine, with a carboxylic acid

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What is alpha emission?

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Correct Answer: The emission of a nucleus, or alpha particle, from an unstable nucleus.

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What is an alloy?

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Correct Answer: A material with metallic properties that is either a compound or a mixture.

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What is an allotrope?

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Correct Answer: Allotrope one of two or more distinct forms of an element in the same physical state

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What is an alkyne?

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Correct Answer: An unsaturated hydrocarbon containing a carbon–carbon triple bond

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What is the general formula for Alkyne?

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Correct Answer: CnH2n-2

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What is an alkyl group?

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Correct Answer: An alkane less one hydrogen atom

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What is the general formula for an alkene?

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Correct Answer: CnH2n

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What is the general formula for an alkane?

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Correct Answer: CnH2n+2

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What does "Group IIA elements" refer to in the context of the alkaline earth metals?

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Correct Answer: The reactive metals

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Which group do the alkaline earth metals belong to?

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Correct Answer: Group IIA

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What is the difference between an alkaline dry cell and a Leclanché dry cell?

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Correct Answer: Alkaline dry cells use potassium hydroxide in place of ammonium chloride.

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What are Alkali metals?

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Correct Answer: The Group IA elements

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What is the name given to Group IA elements?

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Correct Answer: Alkali metals

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What is the group number of Alkali metals?

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Correct Answer: IA

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What is the name for the Group IA elements?

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Correct Answer: Alkali metals

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What is an aliphatic hydrocarbon?

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Correct Answer: A saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon

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What is the functional group present in Aldehydes?

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Correct Answer: Carbonyl group

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Which of the following is not a property of alcohol?

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Correct Answer: It is a compound obtained by substituting a hydroxyl group (—OH) for an —H atom

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What does the term "Aerosol" refer to?

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Correct Answer: A colloid consisting of liquid droplets or solid particles dispersed throughout a gas.

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What is adsorption?

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Correct Answer: The binding or attraction of molecules to a surface

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What is the product of an addition reaction?

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Correct Answer: C-C single bond

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What is an addition polymer?

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Correct Answer: A polymer formed by linking together many molecules by addition reactions.

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List the elements in order of their ease of losing electrons during reactions in aqueous solution

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Correct Answer: Activity series

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The activity series is a listing of the elements in order of their ease of _______.

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Correct Answer: Losing electrons during reactions in aqueous solution

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What is the activity of a radioactive source?

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Correct Answer: The number of nuclear disintegrations per unit time occurring in a radioactive material

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What is the minimum energy of collision required for two molecules to react called?

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Correct Answer: Activation energy

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What is the activated complex?

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Correct Answer: An unstable grouping of atoms that can break up to form products

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How many elements are in the actinides series?

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Correct Answer: 14

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Which elements are in the Actinides series?

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Correct Answer: Actinium plus the 14 elements following it in the periodic table

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What does "Ka" stand for in Acid-ionization constant?

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Correct Answer: Equilibrium constant

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What is the equilibrium constant for the ionization of a weak acid?

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Correct Answer: Ka

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What is an acidic oxide?

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Correct Answer: An oxide that reacts with bases

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Acid base titration curve plots what against what?

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Correct Answer: PH of a solution of acid against the volume of added base

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What is an acid base indicator?

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Correct Answer: A dye that changes color in acidic or basic solutions

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What is an acid salt?

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Correct Answer: A salt that has an acidic hydrogen atom and can undergo neutralization with bases

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What is the pH of acid rain?

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Correct Answer: Lower than 5.6

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What is an Acid (Arrhenius definition)?

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Correct Answer: A substance that produces hydrogen ions when it dissolves in water

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What is an acid?

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Correct Answer: A substance that produces hydrogen ions, H+ ( hydronium ion, H3O+ ), when it dissolves in water

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Which of the following is an example of accuracy?

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Correct Answer: The measure of how close a single measurement is to its true value

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