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Hey Chemistry warriors! Here's a quick support paper for those of you doing Unit 1 this year. Lots of useful questions covering the...

Hello Chemistry students! This material was covered in Quelpr's CSEC Chemistry on June 26, 2021, however the past paper questions and...

Qualitative Analysis is a fancy name for identifying the components of a compound or mixture using a series of tests. We use the qualities..

If you read our last post, you already know that metals are found naturally as ores, ionic compounds in the earth's crust contaminated by...

You see, metals don’t just exist in nature in their pure forms- the earth’s crust isn’t some kind of grocery store we can go to and pick...

Many metals exhibit these chemical properties, but there are differences in the reactivity of the metals that causes some metals to react...

Most of the time in chemistry, we're searching for information we don't know. For example, if we want to know if chlorine gas is an...

Polyamides (or polypeptides) are synthetic polymers composed of several amide (also called peptide) groups. The amide group/linkage consists

Polymers are long chain-like molecules which are formed from several repeating smaller molecules known as monomers. Monomers are those small

In condensation reactions between an alkanol and an alkanoic acid, a water molecule is removed to form an ester. So, to break the ester...

The alkanols (like ethanol and propanol) all contain the hydroxyl functional group (-OH), and thus, undergo a number of similar reactions.

As we discussed in a previous post, alkanes are saturated compounds because they have the maximum number of hydrogen compounds in their...

By now, you have already become familiar with the general formulae of alkanes (CnH2n+2) and alkenes (CnH2n). Alkanes are saturated...

Previously, we discussed the naming of compounds based on their fully displayed structural formulae. We do this because there are...

All the members of a particular homologous series share similar chemical properties (as discusses in a previous post. This is because...

Homologous series were mentioned above, but you may not be familiar with them. These are groups of organic compounds which share similar...

An organic compound is one of a category of millions of compounds containing carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen in addition to several other...

Chemical reactions involve the breaking of old bonds and the formation of new bonds. These changes experienced in materials and chemical...

The rate at which something occurs is how quickly it happens over time. As you know, in chemical reactions, reactants are converted into...