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Chemical Equations - Reactivity and Balancing - Chapter 2 Chemical Reactions

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This lecture covers the basics of chemical equations, including the general form of reactants turning into products, balancing equations with stoichiometric coefficients, and the principles of conservation of atoms and charge. Examples are provided to illustrate the process of balancing equations and determining the state of physical matter involved. The lecture also delves into stoichiometry, calculating the masses of compounds involved in reactions, and identifying the limiting reactant. Various examples are presented to demonstrate these concepts.

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Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry (ˌstɔɪkiˈɒmᵻtri) is the relationship between the quantities of reactants and products before, during, and following chemical reactions. Stoichiometry is founded on the law of conservation of mass where the total mass of the reactants equals the total mass of the products, leading to the insight that the relations among quantities of reactants and products typically form a ratio of positive integers. This means that ,if the amounts of the separate reactants are known, then the amount of the product can be calculated.

Chemical equation

A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and chemical formulas. The reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities are on the right-hand side with a plus sign between the entities in both the reactants and the products, and an arrow that points towards the products to show the direction of the reaction. The chemical formulas may be symbolic, structural (pictorial diagrams), or intermixed.

Table of thermodynamic equations

Common thermodynamic equations and quantities in thermodynamics, using mathematical notation, are as follows: List of thermodynamic propertiesThermodynamic potentialFree entropy and Defining equation (physical chemistry) Many of the definitions below are also used in the thermodynamics of chemical reactions. Heat capacity and Thermal expansion Thermal conductivity The equations in this article are classified by subject. where kB is the Boltzmann constant, and Ω denotes the volume of macrostate in the phase space or otherwise called thermodynamic probability.

Chemical thermodynamics

Chemical thermodynamics is the study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics. Chemical thermodynamics involves not only laboratory measurements of various thermodynamic properties, but also the application of mathematical methods to the study of chemical questions and the spontaneity of processes. The structure of chemical thermodynamics is based on the first two laws of thermodynamics.

Thermodynamic equations

Thermodynamics is expressed by a mathematical framework of thermodynamic equations which relate various thermodynamic quantities and physical properties measured in a laboratory or production process. Thermodynamics is based on a fundamental set of postulates, that became the laws of thermodynamics. One of the fundamental thermodynamic equations is the description of thermodynamic work in analogy to mechanical work, or weight lifted through an elevation against gravity, as defined in 1824 by French physicist Sadi Carnot.

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