Friday, December 28, 2018

Mass Spectroscopy and Organic Molecules

What happens when an organic chemist makes a new molecule?
How do they know what the structure of the new molecule is?
They use lots of different techniques to determine the molecular mass and structure of the new molecule, one of which is mass spectroscopy.
Mass spectroscopy tells you the molecular mass of the molecule, and, it gives a good indication of how the atoms making up the molecule are put together. And it does this by breaking the molecule up!
Find out more about how mass spectroscopy can be used to determine the structure of organic molecules in our tutorial
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

pH of Weak Acid After Dilution

What happens to the pH of a solution of weak acid, such as acetic acid, if you dilute it by adding water to it?
How much water would you have to add to 100 mL of 0.20 mol L-1 acetic acid in order to make a solution with a pH of 3.0 ?
What is the pH of 1 × 10-11 mol L-1 acetic acid?
AUS-e-TUTE can help you answer these questions with our new resources.
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Monday, December 10, 2018

pH after mixing acid and base

If you add enough strong base to a strong acid you can neutralise the solution and its pH will be 7.
But what if you don't add enough base to the acid.
Will the solution be neutral?
Will the pH of the solution be 7?
These are all very good questions which is why AUS-e-TUTE has just added a new tutorial, game, test and exam on this topic.
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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Effect of Dilution on pH of Strong Acid Solution

Need to know what the pH of your hydrochloric acid is after you dilute it?
Need to know how much water to add to your hydrochloric acid to make a solution with a particular pH?
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