This blog is for grade 12 students who are studying chemistry. It is intended to provide a forum for students to discuss, debate and question the topics we cover this semester.
Hey everybody it's night hawk here writing today's blog, the date is March 3 2009 and today we basically reviewed on how to balance Redox equations in Acidic an Basic solutions. Furthermore Ms K also assigned us page 499 questions #22 A-C in a big book as a review for our test. This basically sums up what we did today I hope everyone does a good job on the test tomorrow, well this is Night hawk signing out peace.
Today at the beginning of class Ms.K went over the answers for the Redox Reactions Worksheet. After that we worked on Section 20.3 Balancing Redox Equations Questions 2. a-d ;HalfrxnmethodView more presentations from ekozoriz. Today we learned that to balance a redox reactions you need to; 1. Write the oxidation numbers 2. Split the equation into two parts; oxidation and reduction 3. Add electrons to the correct sides of the equations 4. For acidic reactions add H2O and then H+ as needed 5. For basic reactions ad H2O then H+ and then OH- as needed 6. Make electrons from both reactions the same by multiplying the whole reaction 7. Add the two reactions together 8. Check that oxidation
After we finished that Ms.K assigned us Section 20.3 Balancing Redox Equations Question 3. a-f for homework and it should be done for tomorrow.
In the beginning of the class, Ms. K showed us an animation about redox. To review this animation,click here:)...
After the animation, Ms. K went over Section 20.2 of OXIDATION-REDUCTION REACTIONS worksheet that the sub gave us. If you missed the class or simply wants to see the answers again, check the slideshow below.
Ms. K then started a new lesson about BALANCING USING OXIDATION METHOD. (note. this lesson is not on the yellow booklet).
To balance using the oxidationnmethod, we have to follow these steps: STEP 1. DETERMINE THE OXIDATION NUMBERS. STEP 2. DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF ELECTRONS TRANSFERRED PER ATOM/ION FROM THE CHANGED IN THE OXIDATION #s. STEP 3. DETERMINE THE # OF ELECTRONS TRANSFERRED PER MOLE FROM THE SUBSCRIPT IN THE CHEMICAL FORMULA. STEP 4. MAKE THE # OF ELECTRONS LOSS = # OF ELECTRONS GAINED BY FINDING THE SIMPLE COEFFICIENTS TO BALANCE THE # OF ELECTRONS TRANSFERRED. STEP 5.BALANCE THE EQUATION AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD.
To see examples for each of these steps, pls see Ms. K's slideshow below....
We then answered SECTION 20.3 , # 1 question. Ms. K went over the answers for letters A to D, and can also be found in the slide show below...
IMPORTANT TEST will be on TUESDAY. If you missed the class, dont forget to ask Ms K for the review worksheet she gave us, STUDY GUIDE, REDOX REACTIONS.
Thats it for this day..merci:) HAVE A NICE LOONG WEEKEND ^_ _ _ _^
Finally I've joined this darned blog but yeah. Moffatt picked me to scribe today knowingly I had other stuff to do like sleep. Anyways, here's the following things we've done in class.
1. We were shown an experiment between Aluminum paper and an acid. As shown in class, the Aluminum broke down into a red-ish color from it's original silver color prior to being placed into the acid.
At the beginning of class, Mrs. K handed our titration lab back. When doing labs, she reminded us to do what has been asked, like stating the purpose of the lab, the qualitative observations of the substances involved, and the calculationsof how we got our answers.
For the remainder of the class, we worked on the questions in the booklet and the worksheet as practice for determining the oxidation number of atoms; and indicating the element reduced, the element oxidized, the oxidizing agent, and the reducing agent.
An oxidized elementincreases its oxidation number because it loses electrons.
A reduced elementdecreases its oxidation number because it gains electrons.
An oxidizing agent is a chemical compound contains the atom that gains electrons in a redox reaction.
Areducing agent is a chemical compound that contains the atom that loses electrons in a redox reaction.
Just to add on to what MsK.s slide show, we also had to answer questions from the Aqueous Reactions Booklet, numbers 1-17 on pages 13 and 14. We also got two worksheets from Ms. Hall that we were supposed to do (even though we didn't understand her explanations) so they would be good practice. Even though I am not scribe for today i guess i will pick dangerfield for next scribe.