Chemistry classifying matter

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Chemistry is the study of matter and energy. Matter includes all the material things in the universe. In Section 1.1, we will learn to classify matter into various types—elements, componnds, and mixtnres—based on composition. Properties—the characteristics by which samples of matter may be identified— are discussed in Section 1.2. 

Because matter exists in so many different forms, having a way to classify matter is important for studying it. In a store, such as the nursery in Figure 13, classification helps you to find what you want. In chemistry, it helps you to predict what characteristics a sample will have based on what you know about others like it. 

Let s begin our study of chemistry by examining some fundamental ways in which matter is classified. Two principal ways of classifying matter are according to physical state (gas, liquid, or solid) and according to composition (element, compound, or mixture). 

Group theory has been useful in chemistry in several ways. First, it has provided simple, qualitahve explanations for the behavior of matter. For example, why can the states of electrons in any atom be classified, to a good approximation, by the four quantum numbers n, I, rrii and m Why, in their ground states, is BeH2 a linear molecule but H2O bent Why do certain transitions not appear in an absorption spectrum Lengthy computations can provide correct but uninformative answers to these questions group theory can provide perspicuous explanations of the factors that determine these answers. 

Atoms rarely exist as individual units. Atoms combine with each other to produce the familiar substances of everyday life. Chemistry is largely the study of how atoms combine to form all the different forms of matter. The reason atoms combine involves the subject of chemical bonding, which is explored in Chapter 7. In this chapter, the grouping of atoms into different types of compounds is examined. In the first half of the chapter, chemical nomenclature is discussed. Some of the basic rules for naming compounds are presented. Atoms combine and are rearranged through chemical reactions. The last half of the chapter examines the basic process of chemical reactions and classifies several different types of reactions. 

From these works can best be seen in what, to the most prominent scholars of the thirteenth century, chemistry consisted. It must be remembered however that not yet were the phenomena of matter classified as chemistry in the sense in which we use the term. They speak of alchemy... 

In this chapter we explored many of the rudiments of chemistry, including how matter is described by its physical and chemical properties and denoted by elemental and chemical formulas. We saw how compounds are different from the elements from which they are formed and how mixtures can be separated by taking advantage of differences in the physical properties of the components. Also addressed was what a chemist means by pure and how matter can be classified as element, compound, or mixture. Lastly, we saw how elements are organized in the periodic table by their physical and chemical properties. /Jong the way, you were introduced to some of the most important key terms of chemistry. With an understanding of these fundamental concepts and of the language used to describe them, you are well equipped to continue your study of nature s submicroscopic realm. 

The design of heterogeneous chemical reactors falls into a special category because an additional complexity enters into the problem. We must now concern ourselves with the transfer of matter between phases, as well as considering the fluid dynamics and chemistry of the system. Thus, in addition to an equation describing the rate at which the chemical reaction proceeds, one must also provide a relationship or algorithm to account for the various physical processes which occur. For this purpose it is convenient to classify the reactions as gas-solid, gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid processes. The present chapter will be concerned with gas-solid reactions, especially those for which the solid is a catalyst for the reaction. 

The story in this book traces the study of the qualities and transformations of different kinds of matter from alchemical beginnings to the present. It follows a small number of themes theories about the elements, the need to classify elements and compounds, the status of chemistry as a science, and the contributions of practice to theory. It explores these themes by concentrating on the contributions of some of the most influential and innovative practitioners of the science. 

In Volumes 7 and 25 of this series, we published chapters titled Literature of Heterocyclic Chemistry, which attempted to give a broad summary of reviews, logically classified by subject matter. A similar chapter was included in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 1 (Pergamon, 1984). These overviews have here been updated by Dr. Belen kii (Moscow, U.S.S.R.), who has been contributing surveys of this type for some years to the Russian journal Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, but which have not been included in English translations of this journal. 

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