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LESSON 5: INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL REACTION

Chemical Reaction
- a process in which one or more substances, the reactants, are converted to one or more different
substances, the products. Substances are either chemical elements or compounds. A chemical reaction
rearranges the constituent atoms of the reactants to create different substances as products.

Examples: burning of paper and log of wood, digestion of food, boiling an egg, chemical battery
usage, electroplanting a metal, baking a cake, milk going sour, various metabolism reactions that
take place in the cells.

Chemical Equation
- is an expression that uses chemical formulas and other symbols to illustrate what reactants
constitute the starting materials in a reaction and what products are formed.
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Law of Conservation of Mass

- atoms cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.

Balancing Chemical Equations

- sometimes a chemical equation is balanced as written and the coefficient of each formula is 1.
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LESSON 6: MOLES AND AVOGADRO’S NUMBER

Mole
- is a quantity that contains 6.02 × 1023 items—usually atoms, molecules, or ions.

1 mole of C atoms = 6.02 × 1023 C atoms

1 mole of H2O molecules = 6.02 × 1023 H2O molecules

1 mole of vitamin C molecules = 6.02 × 1023 vitamin C molecule

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Examples:
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Answer
1. How many carbon atoms are contained in each of the following number of moles:
(a) 2.00 mol;
(b) 6.00 mol;
(c) 0.500 mol;
(d) 25.0 mol?

2. How many molecules are contained in each of the following number of moles?
a. 2.5 mol of penicillin molecules
b. 0.25 mol of NH3 molecules
c. 0.40 mol of sugar molecules
d. 55.3 mol of acetaminophen molecules
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3. How many moles of water contain each of the following number of molecules?
a. 6.02 × 10 ^25 molecules
b. 3.01 × 10 ^22 molecules
c. 9.0 × 10 ^24 molecules

4. How many moles are present in 2.45 x 10 ^23 molecules of CH4?