Category: Chemistry
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CARBON AND COMPOUNDS
Introduction Carbon is a non-metallic element that forms the basis of a large number of compounds. It is present in food, fuels, medicines, plastics, and living organisms. Carbon forms a large number of compounds because of its two important properties: tetravalency and catenation. Covalent Bonding in Carbon Carbon has four electrons in its outermost shell.…
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Thermodynamics
The word “Thermo” means Heat and “Dynamics” means flow. Thus, thermodynamics implies the flow of heat. But, now this term is used in much broader sense not only with heat rather with all forms of energies like chemical, physical, electrical energy, radiant energy, kinetic and potential energy. The study of this branch of science based…