A salt containing an ionizable hydrogen atom. Acidic salt does not necessarily produce acidic solutions.
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Dumas Method
A method used to determine the molecular weights of volatile liquids.
Mole Fraction
The number of moles of a component of a mixture divided by the total number of moles in the mixture.
Lewis Base
Any species that can make available a share in an electron pair.
Canal Ray
Stream of positively charged particles (cations) that moves toward the negative electrode in cathode ray tubes, observed to pass through canals in the negative electrode.
Interesting facts about metals
Metals have been used by people since ancient times. All the time the process of obtaining them was improved, useful alloys of various metals appeared. Let’s look at interesting facts about metals.
Period
The elements in a horizontal row of the periodic table.
Half-Reaction
Either the oxidation part or the reduction part of a redox reaction.
Voltage
Potential difference between two electrodes, a measure of the chemical potential for a redox reaction to occur.
High Spin Complex
Crystal field designation for an outer orbital complex, all t2g and eg orbitals are singly occupied before any pairing occurs.
Supercritical Fluid
A substance at temperature above its critical temperature.
