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Electrode Potentials
Potentials, E, of half-reactions as reductions versus the standard hydrogen electrode.
Nitric Acid
HNO3: A strong acid, it is toxic and can cause severe burns. Transparent colorless or yellowish, fuming, suffocating, caustic and corrosive liquid....
Half-Cell
Compartment in which the oxidation or reduction half-reaction occurs in a voltaic cell.
Alkynes
Unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain one or more carbon-carbon triple bonds.
Alpha Particles
A helium nucleus.
Resonance
The concept in which two or more equivalent dot formulas for the same arrangement of atoms (resonance structures) are necessary to describe the...
Alcohol
Hydrocarbon derivative containing an --OH group attached to a carbon atom not in an aromatic ring. Alcohols are a class of organic compounds...
Limiting Reactant
Substance that stoichiometrically limits the amount of product(s) that can be formed.
Atomic Number
Integral number of protons in the nucleus, defines the identity of element.
Deposition
The direct solidification of a vapor by cooling, the reverse of sublimation.

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