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  • of a carbon atom that is bonded to a hydrogen atom and double-bonded to ... of four carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. Hydroxyl (-OH) groups are ...
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  • of just the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). Each hydrocarbon molecule ... is a special case and can have only one hydrogen atom attached to it. ...
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  • of a carbon atom that is bonded to a hydrogen atom and double-bonded to ... oxygen) has attached to it the fifth carbon atom and a hydroxyl group. ...
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  • group, consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom with a single covalent bond and an oxygen atom with a double bond. Thus the chemical formula ...
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  • As an example, the size of a hydrogen atom is estimated to be approximately ... The simplest atom is the hydrogen atom, which has atomic number 1 ...
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  • in a hydrogen molecule (H2), each hydrogen atom takes part in the sharing ... held together by covalent bonds, with a hydrogen atom attached to each carbon ...
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  • In DNA, cytosine (C) and thymine (T) form hydrogen bonds with their ... of atoms substituted in place of a hydrogen atom on the parent chain of ...
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  • a carbonyl group (C=O) linked to a nitrogen atom (N), or a compound that contains ... Compounds in which a hydrogen atom on nitrogen from ammonia or an ...
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  • The carbon atom adjacent to a carbonyl group is called the α-carbon ... group. Oxo also refers to a single oxygen atom coordinated to a transition ...
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  • The atomic mass (ma) is the mass of a single atom, when the atom is ... is approximately equal to the mass of a hydrogen atom, a proton, or a neutron. ...
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  • a proton, all amphiprotic substances contain a hydrogen atom. ... A common example of an amphiprotic substance is the hydrogen carbonate ...
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  • force that exists between a hydrogen atom on one molecule and an ... one part of the bond involves a hydrogen atom, which is covalently ...
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  • The synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by the Haber process ... in the most complicated molecule first. Hydrogen, oxygen, and elements that ...
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  • helium and three times that of liquid hydrogen (on a per unit volume basis ... *20Ne (90.48%), with 10 neutrons in the nucleus of each atom; ...
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  • The nucleus of an atom is the very dense region at the center of the ... to refer to the "central point of an atom." The modern atomic meaning ...
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  • nuclei. The most common isotope of the hydrogen atom is a single proton. The ... In chemistry and biochemistry, the proton is thought of as the hydrogen ...
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  • tiny atomic nucleus. The nucleus of the hydrogen atom was found to be a proton ... behavior, as shown below in the example of the hydrogen atom.) ...
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  • indicates that the sugar lacks an oxygen atom present in ribose, the parent ... in which an organic group replaces a hydrogen atom or multiple hydrogens ...
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  • an ether functional group—an oxygen atom directly bound to two hydrocarbon ... the two alkyl groups attached to the oxygen atom (of the ether) and to append ...
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  • " showing oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ions that gush into space ... charge. For example, H+ represents a hydrogen atom with a single positive ...
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  • pure substance consists of only one type of atom. The older definition, while ... The atomic number of an element or atom, Z, is equal to the number ...
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  • This oxygen atom is bonded to a hydrogen atom forming an OH (hydroxide) group in the clay structure. Clays can be categorized according to the ...
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  • group that contain nitrogen as the key atom. Structurally amines resemble ... due to the absence of a replaceable hydrogen atom. With the much less active ...
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  • guanine. In DNA, adenine and guanine form hydrogen bonds with their complementary ... These hydrogen bonding modes are for classical Watson-Crick base pairing ...
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  • 6 and form stable complexes in the gas phase. Hydrogen-bonds are formed between the three hydrogen atoms of protonated amines and three oxygen atoms ...
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  • acids, written as R-COOH, where R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. Compounds ... to be less stable, and causing the hydrogen atom to be labile, thus it ...
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  • In chemistry, esters are organic compounds in which an organic group (symbolized by R' in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a ...
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  • dioxide, or the reduction of carbon by hydrogen to yield methane (CH4), ... *Oxidation describes the loss of electrons by a molecule, atom or ion. ...
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  • an atom with a single electron, such as the hydrogen atom. ... In atoms with a single electron (essentially the hydrogen atom), the ...
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  • in a volume 1/100,000 the size of the atom. He pioneered the orbital ... that led him to the Rutherford model of the atom, having a very small positively ...
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  • (as the carbons are fully “saturated” with hydrogen atoms) ... of the carbon atoms, bonded to only one hydrogen atom, forms a double bond ...
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  • to the lack of an acidic proton (that is, a hydrogen atom directly bonded to an electronegative atom such as fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen). Ethyl acetate ...
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  • electrophile through its terminal nitrogen atom with an activated double bond. ... * Reduction with hypophosphorous acid replaces the nitrogen by hydrogen ...
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  • element as "an element whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell ... involving the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen to produce ammonia. Nickel ...
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  • are roughly multiples of the weight of the hydrogen atom. were simple integral multiples of that of hydrogen. To test this hypothesis ...
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  • of silicon atoms covalently bound to hydrogen atoms. The general formula ... silane decomposes into silicon and hydrogen. It can therefore be used ...
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  • low toxicity, but some specialized boron hydrogen compounds are toxic and ... reducing volatile boron halogenides with hydrogen at high temperatures. Highly ...
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  • element can be reduced to its basic unit, the atom, which has a specific weight for each element. Based on this idea, in 1828 he compiled a table of ...
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  • did not discriminate as to which hydrogen atom they would react to. ... found that they all consisted of a carbon atom surrounded by atoms of more ...
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  • as "the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons ... cases) when one electron is added to an atom of that element. Ionization ...
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  • the development of the vortex theory of the atom proposed by William Thomson ... mass of the electron compared to the hydrogen atom. Then, in 1899, he measured ...
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  • Note that the position of the oxygen atom differs between the two: ... carbons rather than to one carbon and one hydrogen. As it lacks a hydroxyl ...
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  • In DNA, thymine and cytosine form hydrogen bonds with their complementary ... of atoms substituted in place of a hydrogen atom on the parent chain of ...
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  • Thomson was the first indication that the atom had internal structure. At ... That is, electrons were ejected from the atom with a range of energies, ...
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  • roughly twice the mass of an ordinary hydrogen atom, and deuterium is also ... is the second isotope after ordinary (or light) hydrogen. ...
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  • compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen—was first reported by researchers ... electronic structure of their atoms. The atom of each of these elements ...
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  • megaparsec per year or roughly one hydrogen atom per cubic meter per billion ... amount of lithium, as well as regular hydrogen, since no mechanism of nucleosynthesis ...
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  • and negatively charged electrons in an atom, the ions (some positively ... Main article: Atom. Atoms are the fundamental units of chemistry as ...
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  • The non-hydrogen atoms of functional groups are always associated ... The first carbon atom after the carbon that attaches to the functional ...
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  • comprises a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom and double-bonded to ... indicates that the sugar lacks an oxygen atom present in ribose, the parent ...
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  • there is a double bond between a carbon atom and an oxygen atom. On the ... reaction evolves potentially hazardous hydrogen chloride gas. For medical ...
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  • sulfuric acid at 50 - 60 °C, where one hydrogen atom is displaced to give ... Now a mixture of hydrogen gas and nitrobenzene vapors are heated at ...
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  • ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes ... 1934 from deuterium, another isotope of hydrogen, by Ernest Rutherford, working ...
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  • different electronegativity—one atom attracts electrons more than ... * Hydrogen cyanide: 2.98 * Cyanamide: 4.27 * Potassium bromide: 10.41 ...
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  • Organic compounds are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen, and ... and carboxylic acids where there is hydrogen bonding present. Organic ...
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  • bound for the same reason that the helium atom is inert: Each pair of protons ... ]] + [[Hydrogen-2| hydrogen|2 ]] → 2 [[Helium| helium|4 ...
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  • the second dissociation, HPO42–, is the hydrogen phosphate anion. The anion ... Note that each extra phosphoric unit adds 1 extra H (hydrogen) atom ...
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  • png|center|thumb|280px|The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown ... In 1925 Bohr's model of the atom was superseded by the wave ...
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  • should stick together tightly. A hydrogen atom should be 100,000 times ... a postage stamp depicting Bohr, the hydrogen atom and the formula for the ...
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  • H2SO4. The acid dissociates producing hydrogen ions, H+. A hydrogen ion ... A nucleophilic oxygen atom of unprotonated ethanol displaces a water ...
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  • which Davy proved the lack of oxygen in hydrogen sulfide (H2S), hydrogen ... shift from oxygen-based acids to hydrogen-based acids, started by ...
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  • *Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization ([[ATRP (chemistry)| ... Reactive oxygen species or ROS are species such as superoxide, hydrogen ...
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  • four carbon atoms, including the carbon atom in the carboxyl group. The ... is made up of four carbon atoms and ten hydrogen atoms, so their common molecular ...
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  • produced by reducing tungsten oxide with hydrogen or carbon. ... of 6.4 minutes). (A metastable state of an atom is an unstable state in which ...
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  • The combustion of hydrogen sulfide and organosulfur compounds proceeds ... In terms of electron-counting formalisms, the sulfur atom has an oxidation ...
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  • the correct energy eigenvalues for the hydrogen-like atom. This paper has ... development of science was to describe the atom in terms of the wave and particle ...
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  • group in the benzene ring is replaced by a nitrogen atom. Pyridine has a lone pair of electrons at the nitrogen atom. Because ...
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  • an "acyl" group replaces a hydrogen atom on the benzene ring. ... an "alkyl" group replaces a hydrogen atom on the benzene ring ...
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  • it has an electronegativity of 3.0. Each atom of nitrogen has five electrons ... where R2 or R3 or both may represent a hydrogen atom (each). A peptide or ...
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  • number of protons in the nucleus of each atom) is 6. Each carbon atom is ... (six-membered) rings in which each carbon atom is bonded to three other atoms ...
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  • halogenation. In this reaction a hydrogen atom is removed from the alkane ... one with the halogen and one with the hydrogen atom of the hydrohalic acid ...
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  • group (-N=C=S) replaces a hydrogen atom on the bottom ring of the fluorescein molecule. This derivative is reactive towards amine groups on proteins ...
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  • halogen) atoms attached to a central carbon atom. For this reason, it is placed ... chloral hydrate. Some of the aldehyde hydrogen is retained in the product ...
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  • it with water. The reaction produced hydrogen and sodium hydroxide—two ... chlorine in the anode compartment and hydrogen and sodium hydroxide in ...
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  • sufficiently strong that it will remove hydrogen and oxygen atoms from other ... where protonation occurs on an oxygen atom, is important in many reactions ...
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  • indicates that the sugar lacks an oxygen atom present in ribose, the parent ... in which an organic group replaces a hydrogen atom or multiple hydrogens ...
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  • down to fractions of the size of an atom. In our universe, the short ... down to fractions of the size of an atom. Electromagnetic energy at ...
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  • Group 1 of the periodic table (excluding hydrogen in all but one rare circumstance ... vigorous reactions with water to liberate hydrogen gas. These reactions also ...
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  • Waals was able to estimate the size of a hydrogen molecule. ... * Atom * Gas * Heike Kamerlingh Onnes * Hydrogen * Molecule ...
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  • sulfur, but with a methyl group instead of hydrogen. This methyl group (one carbon and three hydrogen, or CH3) can be activated, and is used in many ...
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  • family of chemical compounds of silicon, hydrogen, and oxygen) forms the basis ... made of silicon, oxygen, carbon, germanium, and hydrogen. ...
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  • and resistance-sintering in a vacuum or hydrogen atmosphere. This procedure ... from APR simply by reducing the latter with hydrogen. * Perrhenic acid ...
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  • Traditional atomism, derived from the word atom, is used in two distinct ... "uncuttable." Whereas the modern atom is indeed divisible, it is ...
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  • to very short gamma rays smaller than atom nuclei. Frequency is inversely ... As a photon is absorbed by an atom, it excites an electron, elevating ...
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  • if all four substituents on the central atom are different, the molecule ... center carbon atom. Sighting with the hydrogen atom away from the viewer ...
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  • in our galaxy is estimated at 1 hydrogen atom/cm3.Wynn-Williams (1992), 38. are small quantities of matter (mostly hydrogen), cosmic dust and cosmic ...
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  • | Hydrogen (H2) | 4,124 | 24,660 |- | Methane (CH4) | 518.3 | 3,099 |- | Nitrogen (N2) | 296.8 | 1,775 |- | Oxygen (O2) | 259.8 | 1,554 ...
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  • with the three methyl groups replaced by hydrogen atoms. === Chemical reactions === Camphor can undergo various reactions, some of which are given ...
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  • quot; which can be viewed as derived from hydrogen persulfide, H2S2. Thus pyrite ... assigns formal oxidation states to each atom, pyrite is probably best described ...
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  • and a proton form a normal matter hydrogen atom. Although the basic principles ... became a reality in the early 1990s. An atom of antihydrogen is composed ...
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  • groups. A carboxyl group comprises a carbon atom attached to an oxygen atom ... a mixture of tartaric acid and potassium hydrogen sulfate, or by the hydrolysis ...
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  • of the electron and the structure of the atom. == Early life == ... and chlorine by substituting chlorine for hydrogen in ethylene. He then took ...
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  • be handled with care. For instance, hydrogen sulfide is quite toxic, ... to the odor of sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, which has the smell ...
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  • engines. It consists of one carbon atom covalently bonded to one oxygen ... dipole moment with its negative end on the carbon atom. ...
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  • as a result of the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in stars. On Earth, it is ... element in the known universe, after hydrogen, constituting 23 percent ...
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  • it splits into a molecule of O2 and an atom of oxygen. These processes ... A single chlorine atom could keep on destroying ozone for up to two ...
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  • hydroxyl group (OH) attached to each carbon atom. To indicate this arrangement ... It could also be used to produce hydrogen gas or citric acid. ...
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  • succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis ... Daniell invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation ...
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  • component) that contained one less hydrogen atom than the molecule being ... hydrocarbons with 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 fewer hydrogen atoms (per molecule) than ...
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  • principle (e.g. the electron orbiting a hydrogen atom has the probability, albeit small, that it could be anywhere else in the universe at any ...
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