Mammoth Chemistry
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Periodic table
- Elements of the periodic table
- Reference periodic table
- Remembering the first 20 elements
- Elements and Mnemonics
- The history of the periodic table
- Groups and periods
- Groups of the periodic table
- Properties of the alkali metals
- Properties of the halogens
- Properties of the transition metals
- Properties of the noble gases
- Reactivity of halogens and alkali metals
Naming chemicals
Atomic structure
Chemical formulae
Chemical bonding
- Chemical bonding: an introduction
- Covalent bonding (sharing)
- Covalent bonding (between non-metals)
- Simple covalent structures (think of water)
- Properties of simple covalent structures
- Examples of simple covalent structures
- Simple covalent structures: a summary
- Giant covalent structures (think of diamond)
- Properties of giant covalent structures
- Examples of giant covalent structures
- Giant covalent structures: a summary
- Ionic bonding (1)
- Ionic bonding (1) (between metals and non-metals)
- Ionic bonding (1) (think of salt)
- Properties of ionic substances (1)
- All ionic compounds are salts (1)
- Examples of ionic substances (1)
- Ionic bonding (1): a summary
- Ionic Bonding (2)
- Ionic Bonding (2) Occurs between metals and non-metals
- Ionic Bonding (2) (think of salt)
- All ionic compounds are salts (2)
- Ionic Bonding (2): a summary
- Redox reactions: reduction and oxidation
- Reduction and Oxidation of Hydrogen
- Metallic bonding (involves a "sea of electrons")
- Metallic bonding: an explanation
- Metallic bonding (think of copper)
- Properties of metallic substances
- Metallic bonding: a summary
- Chemical bonding: a summary
- What kind of structure does your substance have?
Acids, alkalis, bases and salts
- Acids, alkalis, bases and salts: an introduction
- Acids, alkalis, bases and salts: a summary
- Acids
- Acids and water
- All acids contain hydrogen
- Bases
- Metal oxides are basic
- Metal + acid = salt + hydrogen
- Acids + bases = salt + water
- Neutralisation (Chemistry)
- All salts are ionic compounds
- Universal indicator
- Testing acids and alkalis using universal indicator
- Indicators and the pH scale
- Acids, alkalis, bases and salts for A level students or crazy people
- How is an acid formed?
- What do H+ ions do?
- H+ ions can't exist on their own
- What is the relationship between H+ ions and protons?
- Acids are proton donors
- Water is magical
- Titration
The metal reactivity series
- The reactivity series - an introduction
- The reactivity series of metals
- Remembering the reactivity series of metals Method 1
- Remembering the reactivity series of metals Method 2
- Reactions with water: how you remember
- Reactions with steam: how you remember
- Potassium, sodium, lithium and calcium: reactions with steam
- Reactions with acid
- Metal + acid = salt + hydrogen
- Reactions of gold and platinum
- How to remember how a metal reacts with oxygen (or air)
- Reactions of metals when heated in air
- Metals below copper in the reactivity series
Displacement from oxide or solution
Hydrocarbons
- Hydrocarbons: an introduction
- Naming hydrocarbons
- How to remember the hydrocarbons
- The peg method for counting
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Meth-
- Eth-
- Prop-
- But-
- Methane
- Ethane
- Propane
- Butane
- Methene
- Ethene
- Propene
- Butene
- Alcohols explained
- Remember Alcohols 1
- Remember Alcohols 2
- Methanol
- Ethanol
- Propanol
- Butanol
- Isomers
Fractional distillation
- Distillation
- Distillation: an explanation
- Fractional distillation: part 1
- Fractional distillation: part 2
- Fractional distillation: a summary
- A fractioning column for crude oil (used in fractional distillation)
- The fractional distillation of crude oil
- Fractioning column for crude oil: condensing points and temperature
- Remembering the order of the fractions of crude oil
Electrolysis
- What is electrolysis?
- How did electrolysis start?
- How did electrolysis start: example 1
- How did electrolysis start: example 2
- How did electrolysis start: example 3
- How did electrolysis start: example 4
- The reactivity series and electrolysis
- The rules of electrolysis
- Rule 1: electrolysis and hydrogen
- Rule 2: electrolysis and halogens
- Rule 3: electroplating
- Electrolysis: useful definitions and helpful hints
- Electrolyte = liquid
- Cathode and anode (1)
- Cathode and anode (2)
- Oxidation and reduction
- Cations and anions (1)
- Cations and anions (2)
- Electrodes are normally inert
- Electrolysis and water
- Electrolysis: dissociate in liquid
- Half equations
- Electrolysis with different substances - example 1: NaCl and water
- Products of electrolysis on salt water
- Electrolysis with different substances - example 2: copper (ii) chloride
Moles
- Moles
- Moles are a number
- Protons and neutrons weigh 1/6 x 1023 grams
- Moles: worked examples
- Examples of mole questions in chemistry
- Working out empirical formula
- Moles of ideal gases = 24 litres
- Remember a mole of an ideal gas = 24 litres volume at RTP
- The definition of an ideal gas
- Examples of moles of gases
- Be careful with moles
- Moles and maths
- Maths percentages
Chemical reactions
Laboratory tests
The earth's structure