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24 Cards in this Set
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Hybrid orbital
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An orbital that results from the mixing of different kinds of atomic orbitals on the same atom
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Hydration
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Solvation when the solvent is water
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Hydride ion
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An ion formed by the addition of an electron to a hydrogen atom
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Hydrocarbons
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Compounds composed of only carbon and hydrogen
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Hydrogen bonding
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Bonding that results from intermolecular attractions between molecules containing hydrogen bonded to an electronegative element
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Hydrolysis
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A reaction with water. when a cation or anion reacts with water, it changes the pH
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Hydrometallurgy
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Aqueous chemical processes for recovery of a metal from an ore
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Hydronium ion
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The predominant form of the proton in aqueous solution
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Hydrophilic
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Water attracting. the term is often used to describe a type of colloid
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Hypothesis
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A tentative explanation of a series of oobservations or of a natural law
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Ideal gas
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A hypothetical gas whose pressure, volume, and temperature behavior is completely described by the ideal-gas equation
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Ideal-gas equation
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An equation of state for gases that embodies Boyle's law, Charle's law, and Avogadro's hypothesis in the form of PV = nRT
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Ideal solution
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A solution that obeys Raoult's law
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Immiscible liquids
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Liquids that do not dissolve in one another to a significant extent
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Indicator
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A substance added to a solution to indicate by color change the point at which the added solute has reacted with all the solute present in solution
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Instantaneous rate
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The reaction rate at a particular time as opposed to the average rate over an interval of time
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Insulator
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A solid with extermely low electrical conductivity
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Intensive property
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A property that is independent of the amount of material considered for example, density
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Interhalogens
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Compounds formed between two different halogen elements
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Intermediate
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A substance formed in one elementary step of a multistep mechanism and consumed in another; it is neither a reactant nor a product of the overal reaction
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Intermetallic compound
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A homogeneous alloy with definite properties and composition
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Intermolecular forces
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The short-range attractive forces operating between the particles that make up the units of a liquid or solid substance these same forces also cause gases to liquefy or silidify at low temperatures and high pressures
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Internal energy
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the total energy possessed by a system
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Ion
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Electrically charged atom or group of atoms (polyatomic) can be positively or negatively charged, depending on whether electrons are lost or gained
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