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by Paul Nervy
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CHEMISTRY

Contents
Introduction
Inorganic chemistry
	Elements and chemistry
	Compounds and chemistry
Organic chemistry
Chemical database
History of chemistry


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INTRODUCTION

Chemistry.
Chemistry studies molecules and their reactions.

Eeryone is a chemist.  
Chemistry is popular.  There is a stage, especially in early adolesance, when mixing people mix things to see what happens. 

Chemistry can be dangerous.  
Wear safety glasses.  Perform reactions under a ventilation hood.  Don't mix chemicals without knowing what will happen.


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Sub-areas of chemistry

Inorganic chemistry

Organic chemistry


Synthetic chemistry - building molecules

Analytic chemistry - breaking down substances


Chemistry of light.  
Fiber optics.  Light Emitting Diodes.  Lasers.

Chemistry of electromagnetism.  
Transistors.  Conductors.  Resistors.  Insulators.

Chemistry of supercooling.  
Ceramic magnets.

Nuclear chemistry
radioactivity

Biochemistry 
(see biology)


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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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Atoms.

Molecules - combinations of atoms.

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Elements

Compounds - combinations of elements.


Compounds
Compounds with just two elements.
Compounds with three elements.
Compounds with four elements.



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Periodic table of elements
Metals
Metalloid's
Noble gases
Lathinide series
Actinide series
Radioactive elements


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Atomic weight.
Atomic weight of an element is the number of protons and neutrons


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Atomic number
Atomic number of an element is the number of protons


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Lewis structure diagrams
	single bar
	double bar


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Chemical bonds

Covalent bonds.

Ionic bonds.

Metallic bonds

Polar bonds


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Chemical reactions, types of.

Re-arrangement reactions.  Change shape of molecules.

Decomposition.  Break molecules down.

Combination.  Addition reactions.  Puts molecules together.


Single replacement.

Double replacement.


Acid - base reactions

Ion - exchange reactions

Oxidation - reduction reactions

Electrochemical reactions.

Photochemical reactions.


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Kinetics
Reaction rates
Reaction curve charts


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Solutions.  
Chemicals dissolved in liquid.  In water.  In alcohol.  Etc.


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Polymers.  
Plastics.  Large molecules of repetitive form.


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Inorganic chemistry

Metals.

Gases.

Noble gases (inert)

Radioactives

Salts

Water

Oxides

Oxyacids and salts

Carbides

Nitrides

Phosphides

Sulfides

Hydrides

Boranes

Inorganic polymers

Coordination compounds

Organometallic compounds




Solutions

Avogadro's number.

Mole.  
Amount of substance that contains Avogadro's number of atoms or molecules.

Molal.  
One mole of solute in 1000 grams of solvent.

Normal




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Acids and Bases.

Acids.
What is an acid?
Examples, hydrochloric acid.

Bases.
What is a base?
Examples, 

Titration

PH scale


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Salt
What is a salt?


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Oxidation and Reduction

Oxidation

Reduction

Redox reactions


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ELEMENTS

Most plentiful elements - Silicon?
Rarest elements - Gold?  Uranium?

What are the ways elements can be grouped by properties?
The periodic table.  Families of elements.
Solid, liquid or gas at room temperature.
PH


Hydrogen.  Group 1.  Period 1.

Alkalai metals.  Group 1.  Left column of periodic table, excluding hydrogen.

Alkaline earth metals.  Group 2.  Second column from left.

Zinc group.

Boron group.

Carbon group

Nitrogen group

Oxygen group

Halogen group.  Second column from right.

Noble gases.  Right hand column.



Transition elements.  Middle of table.

Rare earth elements.  

Actinide elements.  Bottom row.

Transuranium elements.  

Lanthanides.  Second row from bottom.

Metals

Non metals


Which elements are necessary for human life?  All of them, in a ecological sense.
Why are so many elements poisonous to humans?



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COMPOUNDS

How do you make it?
How do you break it down?




Naturally occurring earth compounds
Silicon - sand

Metals.  Iron ore.  Copper ore.  

Naturally occurring air compounds
Oxygen
Hydrogen


Naturally occurring water compounds
Water.  H20


Chemicals by sea vents


Petrochemicals




Biochemicals - found in plants and animals


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Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon based molecules.

Carbon

Hydrocarbons
Aromatic hyrdrocarbons
Aliphatic hydrocarbons

Alcohols
Phenols
Esthers

Aldehydes

Ketones

Carboxylic acids

Amines

Organohalogens


Hydrocarbons
	Saturated hydrocarbons
	Unsaturated hydrocarbons


isomers
stereo chemistry
chirality
spectroscopy


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Chemicals found in nature vs. not found in nature.

Manmade (analyzed and synthesized) chemicals vs. chemicals gathered from nature and purified.

Poisonous vs. non-poisonous chemicals

Poisonous period vs. poisonous in excessive quantities.


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Simple home chemistry.

Simple home chemicals


Simple home chemistry experiments
Reactions.  Burning.
Solutions.

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Get some litmus paper.  Test acidity of spit, vomit, urine.
 

Rubber.  Natural latex.  Synthetic rubber.  Vulcanized rubber.


Solids
Liquids
Gases.

Gases used in lights.
Neon
Argon
Xenon
Krypton
Halogen

Poisons
Arsenic
Strychnine


Burning.  Combustion.  Need oxygen, produces carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
Magnesium burns.
Wood burns.
Gasoline burns.  

Explosives.  Rapid combustion.  Explosions are perhaps the stereotypical chemical reaction.  When many people think of chemistry they think of explosions.
Gunpowder
Dynamite
TNT
Nitroglycerine
Plastic explosives.  


Solutions.
Solvents.  Water.  Alchohol.  Acetone.  Turpentine.
Solutes.  Disolve.

Salts

Sugars

Proteins

Lipids, Fats, Oils



Soap
Detergent

Fertilizers
Potassium
Nitrogen
Phosphorus

Fuels
Gasoline.  Burns clean.
Kerosene
Diesel fuel.

Glues
White glue.  Wood glue.
Epoxy.  Resin and catalyst.
Super glue.  Arcrylic?

Paints
Oil based paint.  Turpentine.
Water based paint.  Arcrylic.

Dyes.



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List of chemicals.  (See Chemistry database)


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History of chemistry.  (See History database) 


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