Chemistry in the Community
INTRODUCTION
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ChemCom - Know Your Textbook
Please complete this assignment carefully, neatly, and accurately answering all questions.
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Using the Contents section, how many Units is this text divided into?
How many Sections are in each Unit?
2.
What is at the end of each Section?
3.
What Scenario is investigated in Unit 3? (Hint: see preface xxi)
4.
What activity is at the end of each Unit?
5.
Look at page 137. When you are reading the book, how do you recognize a term as a key
word?
Give the key word on page 137 and its definition.
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Locate the Glossary and define the word ion.
7.
Describe the picture in Figure 2.11.
8.
On what page can you find a picture of a precipitate? What color is the precipitate in this
picture?
9.
Where is a Periodic Table of the Elements conveniently located?
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Elements and Symbols to Learn
As a student of chemistry, you must eventually become familiar with the names and symbols of many
elements. Listed below are elements that you must be able to recognize. If given a symbol, you must be
able to spell the name of the element. If given the name of an element, you must be able to provide the
chemical symbol. Using your book, fill in the symbol of the element next to the name of that element.
You must also know the spellings of these elements as well. Elements that are in bold face type are those
that do not readily correspond with symbols of similar lettering.
Aluminum
Antimony
Argon
Arsenic
Barium
Beryllium
Bismuth
Boron
Bromine
Cadmium
Calcium
Carbon
Chlorine
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Fluorine
Gold
Helium
Hydrogen
Iodine
Iron
Krypton
Lead
Lithium
Magnesium
Manganese
Mercury
Neon
Nickel
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Phosphorus
Platinum
Potassium
Radon
Selenium
Silicon
Silver
Sodium
Strontium
Sulfur
Tin
Titanium
Uranium
Xenon
Zinc
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What Has Chemistry Given Us Worksheet
1. List ten things that chemistry has given us.
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2. What does soluble mean?
3. Write the name of the elements and their symbols in calcium fluorophosphate?
4. Define Chemistry.
5. Draw benzene based on the description given in the article.
6. Why is it important to know how a molecule is put together?
7. Who is Dmitry Mendeleyev and what did he do?
8. What did Joseph Priestley discover?
9. What did Marie Curie find as the source of radiation in pitchblende?
10. Define polymer.
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CHEMISTRY LAB EQUIPMENT
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Lecture Notes - Units of Measurement
Measurement – _______________________________________________________________________
The problem is, what do you use as a standard?
Standard should be an
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The SI System
Important base units to know:
Quantity
Unit
Mass
gram
Length
meter
Time
second
Temperature
kelvin
Amount of substance
mole
Abbreviation
Important prefixes(multiples of base units) to know:
Prefix
Abbreviation
Meaning
Example
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Reading graduated cylinders:
Scientific Notation:
30 
300 
3000 
0.3 
0.03 
0.003 
Factor Label Method (Dimensional Analysis)
A method of problem solving that treats units like algebraic factors
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Rules
1. Put the known quantity over the number 1.
2. On the bottom of the next term, put the unit on top of the previous term.
3. On top of the current term put a unit that you are trying to get to.
4. On the top and bottom of the current term, put in numbers in order to create equality.
5. If the unit on top is the unit of your final answer, multiply/divide and cancel units. If not, return to
step # 2.
6. As far as sig figs are concerned, end with what you start with!
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Example: convert 3.0 ft to inches
Example: convert 1.8 years to seconds
Example: convert 2.50 ft to cm if 1 inch = 2.54 cm
Example: convert 75 cm to m
Example: convert 150 g to kg
Example: convert 0.75 L to cm3
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Example: convert 22 cm to dm
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Dimensional Analysis
Directions: Please solve the following problems for the correct answer and unit using the factor label
method. All work must be shown in order to receive full credit.
Convert 70 cm to mm
Convert 49 cL to dL
Convert 6 km to m
Convert 142 km to m
Convert 47 mL to cL
Convert 97 cm to dm
Convert 943 g to cg
Convert 43 mL to cm3
Convert 75 g to mg
Convert 60 km to dm
Convert 109 g to kg
Convert 13 kL to dL
Convert 70 cm3 to mL
Convert 55 L to kL
Convert 536 km to mm
Convert 176 m to mm
Convert 250 m to dm
Convert 20 mm to dm
Convert 2.44 L to cm3
Convert 643 kg to cg
Convert 45654 mg to kg
Convert 2570 mm to dm
Convert 1000 mg to g
Convert 160 dm to cm
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