Friday, March 11, 2011

ChemThink Chemical Reaction Questions

Questions

1. Starting materials in a chemical reaction are called reactants.

2. The ending materials in a chemical reaction are called products.

3. The arrow indicates a chemical change has taken place.

4. All reactions have one thing in common: there is a rearrangement of chemical bonds.

5. Chemical reactions always involve breaking old bonds, forming new bonds, or both.

6. All reactions we still have all of the atoms at the end that we had at the start.

7. In every reaction there can never be any missing atoms or new atoms.

8. Chemical reactions only rearrange the bonds in the atoms that are already there.

9. If we use only the atoms shown, we’d have 2 atoms of H and 2 atoms of O as reactants. This would make 1 molecule of H2O, but we’d have 1 atom of O leftover.

10.
# of atoms in reactantsElement# of atoms in prouducts
4

H

4
2

O

2


11. This idea is called the Law of Conservation of Mass.

12. There must be the same mass and the same number of atoms before the reaction (in the reactants) and after the reaction (in the products).

13. What is the balanced equation for this reaction? 2 Cu + 2 O2 = 2 CuO

14. In the unbalanced equation there are:
ReactantsProducts
Cu atoms 1Cu atoms 1
O atoms 2O atoms 1


15. To balance this equation we have to add CuO molecules to the products, because this reaction doesn't loan O atoms.

16. When we added a molecule of CuO, now the number of O atoms is balanced but the number of Cu atoms don’t match. Now we have to add more Cu atoms to the reactants.

17. The balanced equation for this reaction is:
2 Cu + O2 = 2 CuO
That is the same thing as saying:
ReactantsProducts
# Cu atoms 2# Cu atoms 2
# O atoms 2# O atoms 2


18. What is the balanced equation for this reaction? 1 CH4 + 2 O22 H2O + 1 CO2

19. What is the balanced equation for this reaction? 1 N2 + 3 H2 2 NH3

20. What is the balanced equation for this reaction? 2 KDIO3 2 KCI + 3 O2

21. What is the balanced equation for this reaction? 4 Al + 3 O2 2 Al2O3

Summary

1. Chemical reactions always involve breaking bonds, making bonds, or both.

2. The Law of Conservation of Mass says that the same atoms must be present before and after the reaction.

3. To balance a chemical equation, you change the coefficients in front of each substance until there are the same number of each type of atom in both reactants and products.

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