Elements of Chemistry: Carbon the Element of Life
: 58 What is organic chemistry?
1:05 What makes carbon so important?
1:28 What percent of all substances contain carbon?
2:29 How many electrons does carbon have?
How many valence electrons does carbon have?
2:45 What is the octet rule?
2:58 How does carbon satisfy the octet rule?
3:05 Name the bonding options for carbon.
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3:28 What adjectives describe the bonds that carbon can form?
3:39 Name 3 elements other than carbon itself that carbon commonly bonds with.
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4:02 Hydrocarbons
4:16 What are hydrocarbons?
4:26 Where do most deposits of hydrocarbons exist in the Earth?
4:36 Name 3 purposes of hydrocarbons.
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4:42 Natural gas and petroleum are produces by what?
4:50 What name is used to refer to these hydrocarbons?
4:59-5:16 What is the simplest hydrocarbon?
Draw a model.
5:48 Methane, ethane and propane are part of what family of hydrocarbons?
5:56 What 2 things do methane, ethane, propane, hexane and pentane have in common?
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6:19 Draw a branched alkane.
6:41-7:00 What is the general formula for alkanes?
What does n mean?
7:04 If we have 4 carbon atoms, how many hydrogens are there?
7:17 Cycloalkanes contain what shape?
7:25 What is the general formula for cycloalkanes?
7:31 What are saturated hydrocarbons?
7:37 What are unsaturated hydrocarbons?
7:51 Draw ethane.
What is the formula?
8:00-8:10 What is an alkene?
Formula?
8:21-8:31 What is an alkyne?
Formula?
8:47 Fill in the table that explains how the name indicates the number of carbon atoms.
8:52 Fill in the table that explains how the name indicates the kind of covalent bond.
9:32 Functional Group
10:06 What is a halocarbon?
10:27 Draw CHCl3 (trichloromethane)
10:42 What do all these parts of the word mean? Tri
chloro
meth
ane
11:09 What is the hydroxyl group?
11:14 Compounds that contain the hydroxyl group are called?
11:36 What do all these parts of the word mean? meth
an
11:54 What kind of alcohol is in beer and wine and some vehicle fuels?
12:08 What is ether?
12:23 What is the carbonyl group?
12:57 What two classes of molecules are bonded with nitrogen?
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13:09 Polymers and Plastics
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13:09-13:38 What do we call molecules with a backbone of carbon?
13:38-13:42 What makes up polymers?
Which kind makes up cellulose?
14:05 What do we call synthetic polymers?
14:10 What was the first synthetic polymers?
14:16 Name two developed in the 1930s
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14:56 What are the benefits of synthetic polymers?
15:08 What are the disadvantages of synthetic polymers?
15:27 Life Processes
15:52 List the chemical processes of life
16:15 What is the most fundamental life process?
16:25 What is the ultimate source of energy?
16:35 What plants organelle is responsible for photosynthesis?
16:42 Write the chemical equation for photosynthesis.
16:51 What is glucose used for in living systems?
16:54 What is the byproduct of photosynthesis?
17:31 How does a carnivore obtain energy if they do not eat plants?
17:54 Quiz
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