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Lecture

Chemical Equilibria and Reactivity

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This lecture covers the principles of chemical equilibria and reactivity, focusing on topics such as the SI system, atomic structure, isotopes, and molecular formulas. It also discusses the concept of mole, Avogadro's number, and the mass molar of elements. The course includes exercises, tests, and additional resources for self-assessment.

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Mole (unit)

The mole (symbol mol) is the unit of measurement for amount of substance, a quantity proportional to the number of elementary entities of a substance. It is a base unit in the International System of Units (SI). One mole contains exactly 6.02214076e23 elementary entities (602 sextillion or 602 billion times a trillion), which can be atoms, molecules, ions, or other particles. The number of particles in a mole is the Avogadro number (symbol N0) and the numerical value of the Avogadro constant (symbol NA) expressed in mol-1.

Avogadro constant

The Avogadro constant, commonly denoted N_A or L, is an SI defining constant with an exact value of 6.02214076e23reciprocal moles. It is used as a normalization factor in the amount of substance in a sample (in units of moles), defined as the number of constituent particles (usually molecules, atoms, or ions) divided by N_A. In practice, its value is often approximated as 6.02×1023 or 6.022×1023 particles per mole. The constant is named after the physicist Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856).

Molecular mass

The molecular mass (m) is the mass of a given molecule, for which the unit dalton (Da) is used. Different molecules of the same compound may have different molecular masses because they contain different isotopes of an element. The related quantity relative molecular mass, as defined by IUPAC, is the ratio of the mass of a molecule to the atomic mass constant (which is equal to one dalton) and is unitless. The molecular mass and relative molecular mass are distinct from but related to the molar mass.

Chemical formula

In chemistry, a chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs. These are limited to a single typographic line of symbols, which may include subscripts and superscripts. A chemical formula is not a chemical name since it does not contain any words.

Molar mass

In chemistry, the molar mass (M) of a chemical compound is defined as the ratio between the mass and the amount of substance (measured in moles) of any sample of said compound. The molar mass is a bulk, not molecular, property of a substance. The molar mass is an average of many instances of the compound, which often vary in mass due to the presence of isotopes. Most commonly, the molar mass is computed from the standard atomic weights and is thus a terrestrial average and a function of the relative abundance of the isotopes of the constituent atoms on Earth.

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