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CHEMISTRY CHAPTER - 1
Chemistry
It is the branch of science which deals with the composition, structure and properties of matter. Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier is called the father of chemistry.
Branches of Chemistry
In addition to these biochemistry, war chemistry, nuclear chemistry forensic chemistry, earth chemistry etc., are
other branches of chemistry.
Matter
Anything which occupies some space and have some mass is called matter. It 15 made up of small particles
which have space between them. The matter particles attract each other and are in a state of continuous motion.
Elements
It is the simplest form of pure substance, which can neither be decomposed into nor built from simpler
substances by ordinary physical and chemical methods. It contains only one kind of atoms. The number of
elements known till date is 118.
[Hydrogen IS the most abundant element in the universe. Oxygen (46.6%), a non-metal, is the most abundant
element in the earth crust. AI is the most abundant metal in the earth crust. An element can be a metal, a nonmetal or a metalloid.]
Symbols
A symbol is an abbreviation or shortened form for the full name of an element. The present
system of symbols was introduced by Berzelius.
Symbol and Latin Names for Some Elements
Compounds
It is also the form of matter which can be formed by combining two or more elements in a definite ratio by
mass. It can be decomposed into its constituent elements by suitable chemical methods, e.g., water (H2O) is
made of hydrogen and oxygen in the ratio 1 : 8 by mass. Compounds can be of two types :
(i) Inorganic compounds Previously, it was believed that these compounds are derived from
non-living sources, like rocks and minerals. But these are infact the compounds of all the
elements except hydrides of carbon (hydrocarbons) and their derivatives.
(ii) Organic compounds According to earlier scientists, these compounds are derived from living sources like
plants and animals, or these remain buried under the earth (e.g., petroleum). According to modern concept,
these are the hydrides of carbon and their derivatives.
Mixtures
These are made up of two or more pure substances. They can possess variable composition and can be
separated into their components by some physical methods.
Mixtures may be homogeneous (when composition is uniform throughout) or heterogeneous (when
composition is not uniform throughout). Common methods for the separation of mixtures are
(a) Filtration Filtration is the process of separating solids that are suspended in liquids by pouring the mixture
into a filter funnel. As the liquid passes through the filter, the solid particles are held on the filter.
(b) Distillation Distillation is the process of heating a liquid to form vapours and then cooling the vapours to
get back the liquid. This is a method by which a mixture containing volatile substances can be separated into Its
components.
(c) Sublimation This is the process of conversion of a solid directly into vapours on heating. Substances
showing this property are called sublimate, e.g., iodine, naphthalene, camphor. This method is used to separate
a sublimate from non-sublimate substances.
(d) Crystallisation It is a process of separating solids having different solubilities in a particular solvent.
(e) Magnetic separation Tills process is based upon tbe fact that a magnet attracts magnetic components of a
mixture of magnetic and non-magnetic substances. The non-magnetic substance remains unaffected. Thus. it
can be used to separate magnetic components from nonmagnetic components.
(f) Atmolysis Tills method is based upon rates of diffusion of gases and used for their separation from a
gaseous mixture.
Atoms and Molecules
Atom is the smallest particle of an element which can take part in a chemical reaction. It mayor may not be
capable of independent existence.
Molecule is the simplest particle of matter that has independent existence. It may be homoatomic e.g., H2, CI2,
N2 (diatomic), O3 (triatomic) or heteroatomic, e.g., HCI, NH3, CH3 etc.
Physical Quantities and Their Measurements
Units
To express the measurement of any physical quantity two things are considered:
(i) Its unit,
(ii) The numerical value.
Magnitude of a physical quantity = numerical value * unit
Units are of two types:
(i) Basic units
(ii) Derived units
(i) The basic or fundamental units are those of length (m), ass (kg), time (s), electric current
(A), thermodynamic temperature (K), amount of substance (mol) and luminous intensity (cd).
(ii) Derived units are basically derived from the fundamental units, e.g., unit of density is
derived from units of mass and volume.
The systems used for describing measurements of various physical quantities are
(a) CGS system It is based on centimetre, gram and second as the units of length, mass and
time respectively.
(b) FPS system A British system which used foot(ft). pound (lb) and second (s) as the
fundamental units of length, mass and time.
(c) MRS system Uses metre (m), kilogram (kg) and second (s) respectively for length, mass and time; ampere
(A) was added later on for electric current.
(d) SI system (1960)International system of units and contains following seven basic and two supplementary
units:
Base Physical Quantities and their Corresponding Basic Units
SUpplementary units It includes plane angle in radian and solid angle in steradian.
Prefixes
The SI units of some physical quantities are either too small or too large. To change the order
of magnitude. these are expressed by using prefixes before the name of base units. The various
prefixes are listed as
Dimensional Analysis
Often while calculating, there is a need to convert units from one system to other. The method used to
accomplish this is called factor label method or unit factor method or dimensional analysis. In this, Information
sought = Information given * Conversion Factor
Important Conversion Factor
Scientific Notation
In such notation, all measurements (however large or small) are expressed as a number between 1.000 and
9.999 multiplied or divided by 10. In general as N * 10
Here, N is called digit term (1.000-9.999) and n is known as exponent. e.g., 138.42 cm can be written as 1.3842
* 102 and 0.0002 can be written as 2.0 * 10-4.
precision and Accuracy
Precision refers the closeness of the set of values obtained from identical measurements of a quantity. Precision
is simply a measure of
reproducibility of an experiment.
Precision = individual value arithmetic mean value
Accuracy is a measure of the difference between the experimental value or the mean value of a set of
measurements and the true value.
Accuracy = mean value true value
In physical measurements, accurate results are generally precise but precise results need not be accurate. In
other words good precision does not assure good accuracy.
Significant Figures
Significant figures are the meaningful digits in a measured or calculated quantity. It includes all those digits that
are known with certainty plus one more which is uncertain or estimated. Greater the number of significant
figures in a measurement, smaller the uncertainty. Rules for determining the number of significant figures are:
1. An digits are significant except zeros in the beginning of a number.
2. Zeros to the right of the decimal point are significant. e.g., 0.132, 0.0132 and 15.0, all have three significant
figures.
Standard number 6.023x 1023 is called Avogadro number in honour of Avogadro (he did not
give this number) and is denoted by NA.
The volume occupied by one mole molecules of a gaseous substance is called molar volume or
gram molecular volume.
Number of moles = amount of substance (in gram) / molar mass
Atomic
Weight
Name
1.0079
Hydrogen
-259
-253
0.09
4.0026
Helium
He
-272
-269
6.941
Lithium
Li
180
9.0122
Beryllium
10.811
0.14
Electron
configuration
Ionization
energy
(eV)
1776
1s1
13.5984
0.18
1895
18
1s2
24.5874
1347 0.53
1817
[He] 2s1
5.3917
Be
1797
[He] 2s2
9.3227
Boron
1808
13
8.298
12.0107
Carbon
ancient
14
11.2603
14.0067
Nitrogen
-210
-196
1.25
1772
15
14.5341
15.9994
Oxygen
-218
-183
1.43
46.71
1774
16
13.6181
18.9984
Fluorine
-220
-188
1.7
0.029
1886
17
17.4228
10
20.1797
Neon
Ne
-249
-246
0.9
1898
18
21.5645
11
22.9897
Sodium
Na
98
883
0.97
2.75
1807
[Ne] 3s1
5.1391
12
24.305
Magnesium
Mg
639
1090 1.74
2.08
1755
[Ne] 3s2
7.6462
13
26.9815
Aluminum
Al
660
2467 2.7
8.07
1825
13
5.9858
14
28.0855
Silicon
Si
27.69
1824
14
8.1517
15
30.9738
Phosphorus
44
280
1.82
0.13
1669
15
10.4867
16
32.065
Sulfur
113
445
2.07
0.052
ancient
16
10.36
0.094
17
35.453
Chlorine
Cl
-101
-35
3.21
18
39.948
Argon
Ar
-189
-186
1.78
19
39.0983
Potassium
64
774
0.86
20
40.078
Calcium
Ca
839
1484 1.55
21
44.9559
Scandium
Sc
22
47.867
Titanium
Ti
23
50.9415
Vanadium
24
51.9961
Chromium
Cr
25
54.938
Manganese
Mn
26
55.845
Iron
27
58.9332
28
1774
17
12.9676
1894
18
15.7596
2.58
1807
[Ar] 4s1
4.3407
3.65
1808
[Ar] 4s2
6.1132
1879
6.5615
1791
6.8281
1830
6.7462
0.035
1797
6.7665
0.09
1774
7.434
Fe
5.05
ancient
7.9024
Cobalt
Co
1735
7.881
58.6934
Nickel
Ni
1751
10
7.6398
29
63.546
Copper
Cu
ancient
11
7.7264
30
65.39
Zinc
Zn
420
907
ancient
12
9.3942
31
69.723
Gallium
Ga
30
2403 5.91
1875
13
5.9993
32
72.64
Germanium
Ge
937
2830 5.32
1886
14
7.8994
33
74.9216
Arsenic
As
81
613
5.72
ancient
15
9.7886
34
78.96
Selenium
Se
217
685
4.79
1817
16
9.7524
35
79.904
Bromine
Br
-7
59
3.12
1826
17
11.8138
36
83.8
Krypton
Kr
-157
-153
3.75
1898
18
13.9996
37
85.4678
Rubidium
Rb
39
688
1.63
1861
[Kr] 5s1
4.1771
38
87.62
Strontium
Sr
769
1384 2.54
1790
[Kr] 5s2
5.6949
39
88.9059
Yttrium
1794
6.2173
40
91.224
Zirconium
Zr
1789
6.6339
41
92.9064
Niobium
Nb
1801
6.7589
42
95.94
Molybdenum
Mo
1781
7.0924
Technetium
Tc
1937
7.28
43
* 98
0.045
0.62
0.019
7.13
0.025
44
101.07
45
Ru
1844
7.3605
102.9055 Rhodium
Rh
1803
7.4589
46
106.42
Pd
1803
10
[Kr] 4d10
8.3369
47
107.8682 Silver
Ag
962
2212 10.5
ancient
11
7.5762
48
112.411
Cadmium
Cd
321
765
8.65
1817
12
8.9938
49
114.818
Indium
In
157
2000 7.31
1863
13
5.7864
50
118.71
Tin
Sn
232
2270 7.31
ancient
14
7.3439
51
121.76
Antimony
Sb
630
1750 6.68
ancient
15
8.6084
52
127.6
Tellurium
Te
449
990
6.24
1783
16
9.0096
53
126.9045 Iodine
114
184
4.93
1811
17
10.4513
54
131.293
Xe
-112
-108
5.9
1898
18
12.1298
55
132.9055 Cesium
Cs
29
678
1.87
1860
[Xe] 6s1
3.8939
56
137.327
Ba
725
1140 3.59
1808
[Xe] 6s2
5.2117
57
138.9055 Lanthanum
La
920
3469 6.15
1839
5.5769
58
140.116
Ce
795
3257 6.77
1803
101
5.5387
59
140.9077 Praseodymium
Pr
935
3127 6.77
1885
101
5.473
60
144.24
Neodymium
Nd
1885
101
5.525
Promethium
Pm
1945
101
5.582
61
* 145
Ruthenium
Palladium
Xenon
Barium
Cerium
0.05
62
150.36
Samarium
Sm
1879
101
5.6437
63
151.964
Europium
Eu
822
1901
101
5.6704
64
157.25
Gadolinium
Gd
1880
101
6.1501
65
158.9253 Terbium
Tb
1843
101
5.8638
66
162.5
Dy
1886
101
5.9389
67
164.9303 Holmium
Ho
1867
101
6.0215
68
167.259
Er
1842
101
6.1077
69
168.9342 Thulium
Tm
1879
101
6.1843
70
173.04
Yb
824
1878
101
6.2542
Dysprosium
Erbium
Ytterbium
1597 5.24
1466 6.9
71
174.967
Lutetium
Lu
1907
101
5.4259
72
178.49
Hafnium
Hf
1923
6.8251
73
180.9479 Tantalum
Ta
1802
7.5496
74
183.84
Tungsten
1783
7.864
75
186.207
Rhenium
Re
1925
7.8335
76
190.23
Osmium
Os
1803
8.4382
77
192.217
Iridium
Ir
1803
8.967
78
195.078
Platinum
Pt
1735
10
8.9587
79
196.9665 Gold
Au
ancient
11
9.2255
80
200.59
Hg
-39
357
ancient
12
10.4375
81
204.3833 Thallium
Tl
303
1457 11.85
1861
13
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p1
6.1082
82
207.2
Pb
327
1740 11.35
ancient
14
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p2
7.4167
83
208.9804 Bismuth
Bi
271
1560 9.75
ancient
15
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p3
7.2856
1898
16
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p4
8.417
1940
17
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p5
9.3
1900
18
[Xe]
4f14 5d10 6s2 6p6
10.7485
Mercury
Lead
13.55
84
* 209
Polonium
Po
254
962
9.3
85
* 210
Astatine
At
302
337
86
* 222
Radon
Rn
-71
-62
87
* 223
Francium
Fr
27
677
1939
[Rn] 7s1
4.0727
88
* 226
Radium
Ra
700
1737 5.5
1898
[Rn] 7s2
5.2784
89
* 227
Actinium
Ac
1899
5.17
90
232.0381 Thorium
Th
1829
102
6.3067
91
231.0359 Protactinium
Pa
1568
1913
102
5.89
92
238.0289 Uranium
1789
102
6.1941
9.73
15.4
93
* 237
Neptunium
Np
640
3902 20.2
1940
102
6.2657
94
* 244
Plutonium
Pu
640
3235 19.84
1940
102
6.0262
95
* 243
Americium
Am
994
2607 13.67
1944
102
5.9738
96
* 247
Curium
Cm
1340
13.5
1944
102
5.9915
97
* 247
Berkelium
Bk
986
14.78
1949
102
6.1979
98
* 251
Californium
Cf
900
15.1
1950
102
6.2817
99
* 252
Einsteinium
Es
860
1952
102
6.42
100
* 257
Fermium
Fm
1527
1952
102
6.5
101
* 258
Mendelevium
Md
1955
102
6.58
102
* 259
Nobelium
No
827
1958
102
6.65
103
* 262
Lawrencium
Lr
1627
1961
102
4.9
104
* 261
Rutherfordium
Rf
1964
105
* 262
Dubnium
Db
1967
106
* 266
Seaborgium
Sg
1974
107
* 264
Bohrium
Bh
1981
108
* 277
Hassium
Hs
1984
109
* 268
Meitnerium
Mt
1982