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- Contribution of Farday and de Broglie
- What is hybridization?
- What is the Avogadro number?
- Convert atomic percentage to weight percentage
Contribution of Farday and de Broglie
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February 25, 2010
What is the contribution of De broglie and Faraday to the elucidation of atomic structure
Auwal - Nigeria
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Faraday studied the effect of electricity on solutions and developed laws of electrolysis. However, he was not a proponent of the atomic theory of matter.
Louis de Broglie stated the theory that an electron can be treated as both a wave and a particle. This led to the Schrodinger Wave Equation, a mathematical statement that describes the behavior of all electrons up to the limits allowed by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the modern theory of atomic structure.
What is hybridization?
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December 22, 2009
What is sp,sp2, sp3 hybridization?
Divyesh - India
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A good website with information hybridization is at:
http://dl.clackamas.edu/ch106-02/typesof.htm
What is the Avogadro number?
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February 19, 2008
I do not understand the formula An=6..02x10-23.
According to the explanation given in the lesson the gram weight of all atoms would be the same. However I know that that is not true. Do you multiply the molecule weight by the product of the An formula?
Thanks, Bill.
Billy - USA
15398
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"An" stands for the Avogadro number, which is the number of atoms in 1 mole. In other words one mole of a substance has 6.02x10^23 atoms in it.
A gram-mole is the quantity of a substance whose mass in grams is equal to its formula weight. Thus a gram-mole of Carbon-12 would equal 12 grams.
It is a difficult concept to understand.
Convert atomic percentage to weight percentage
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August 2, 2007
How to convert atomic percentage into weight percentage and vice versa.?
dhana - India
14148
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Atomic percent is the the number of atoms of a doping agent divided by the number of atoms of the solution. The number of atoms is determined from the moles of the substance, which in turn relates the its atomic number.
A mole (mol) is defined as the number of grams of a substance that is equal to its atomic or molecular weight.
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