6 Important Characteristics of Organic Compounds
Organic compounds have some very peculiar characteristics and properties when it comes to the kind of chemical reactions they undergo. Since organic compounds have very…
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Significance and Properties of the Homologous Series
The numerous organic compounds can be grouped into a comparatively small number of series or families of compounds known as homologous series. The simplest series…
Application of Isomerism in Industrial Chemical Processes
If we study the structural formula of butane or other higher hydrocarbons of the alkane series, we will observe that it is possible to arrange…
Application and Uses of Plastics and Synthetic Polymers
Synthetic polymers are commonly called plastics. The term plastic comes from the Greek word plastikos, which means to mould. Nowadays, plastics refer to synthetic materials…
5 Important Industrial Chemicals of Addition Polymerization
In addition polymerization, the monomers simply join together to form the polymer which has the same empirical formula as the monomer, but is of a…
Application of Condensation Polymerization in Industrial Processes
Condensation polymerization differs from addition polymerization in that small molecules such as water, ammonia or hydrogen chloride are eliminated during the formation of the polymer….
How to Easily Memorize Elements of the Electrochemical Series
The elements of the electrochemical series is a list of metals arranged in their order of reactivity from the most reactive to the least reactive…
Importance of Stoichiometry and Electronegativity in Chemical Reactions
Stoichiometry is the art of measuring chemical elements in quantitative relationship in chemical reactions. It is ordinary chemical arithmetic. Experiments can be designed to study the…
How to Carryout Volumetric Analysis and Acid-Base Titrations
One important area of chemistry is the analysis of substances to determine their composition, either qualitatively or quantitatively. In qualitative analysis, we identify the elements and…
How Electrolysis and Electrolytic Reactions Occur in a Cell
What is electrolysis? Electrolysis is the chemical change brought about by the passage of a direct current through an electrolyte via electrodes. Before the passage…