International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Answer: Burning wood, souring milk, browning of a cut apple
Answer: Yes, a given amount of Hydrogen would react with different masses of the two isotopes of chlorine, and no, this does <em>not</em> conflict with the Law of Definite proportions
Explanation:
About 76% percent of Cl is found in the Cl-35 isotope, and about 24% in the Cl.37 isotope. that means that about 24% of Cl nuclei have 2 more neutrons than the average Cl nucleus.
So, if
reacts with
, 76% of the Hydrogen that reacted will react with Cl-35, and the rest will react with Cl-37. Why does this not conflict with the law of definite proportions? Because each Hydrogen atom ends up paired to a single Chlorine atom! Moreover, the proportion of Cl-35 to Cl-37 remains constant in all samples of Chlorine that are naturally found, thus we will always find the same proportion of Chlorine to Hydrogen in any HCl sample we come across. Thus the weight of a mol of Cl will always be
or 35.45 if we had done this calculation with more significant digits.
Therefore 1 mol of
(2 grams) will always react with 1 mol of
(35.45g*2=70.9 grams), and this is a definite proportion.
Answer:
The Lewis structure indicates that each Cl atom has three pairs of electrons that are not used in bonding (called lone pairs) and one shared pair of electrons (written between the atoms). A dash (or line) is sometimes used to indicate a shared pair of electrons: A single shared pair of electrons is called a single bond.
Explanation: