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Title: STAV 09
Post by: Martoman on June 05, 2010, 03:39:29 pm
Anyone else found this laughable?
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Post by: superflya on June 05, 2010, 03:45:23 pm
maybe :P
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Post by: Stroodle on June 05, 2010, 04:00:37 pm
yeah. short answer was ridiculously easy. lost 4 marks on this exam.
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Post by: menashiiii on June 05, 2010, 04:11:50 pm
have any of you got a copy i could download?:P
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Post by: Stroodle on June 05, 2010, 04:15:38 pm
THere's a link somewhere. But here it is again :)
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Post by: menashiiii on June 05, 2010, 04:21:58 pm
THere's a link somewhere. But here it is again :)
thanks man!
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: Martoman on June 05, 2010, 04:22:23 pm
LAWL i lost 4 as well. 3 actually, i need to learn to count

Still don't like this question tho, 18:

1-propene reacts with H20

Is this a hydration or hydrolysis? Its both!?.... bad question i think.

Also q1 if you have then you have to consider the effect of 2 in the oxidation equation.... T.T I usually ignore the coefficients but it not a coefficient is it....

yeah and last question : It can be fermentation as well as a redox/oxidation *sigh* @ solutions.
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: stonecold on June 05, 2010, 04:25:03 pm
I remember this exam.  Yeah, I wrote fermentation and was all wtf when the solutions said oxidation.  What should we write on the exam?

And yeah, water plus ethene = hydrolysis, as you are breaking the double bond.
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: Martoman on June 05, 2010, 04:25:49 pm
Sigh, so close to getting 100 now.

For the exams i think we'll wait for Mao to act as arbiter here.

Question says: What type of chemical reaction is this. Fermentation is as valid as oxidation.

~Alkene + water is hydration or addition. It's not hydrolosis as the molecule is not split.

~I got that one wrong too, for the exact same reason...

~Yeah, either.

I didn't know this. Thanks m@tty  :-*. Previously my understanding was hydrolysis = water as a reactant.



Now hydrolysis = water as reactant and splits molecule.

Damn it, in the NEAP book, they say it is hydrolysis.   >:(

Lol this is where i was basing my knowledge off!
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: Stroodle on June 05, 2010, 04:26:54 pm
Is it considered hydrolysis?
I thought hydrolysis was just the chemical breakdown of a compound due to reaction with water.
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Post by: m@tty on June 05, 2010, 04:27:14 pm
~Alkene + water is hydration or addition. It's not hydrolosis as the molecule is not split.

~I got that one wrong too, for the exact same reason...

~Yeah, either. Though I'd say the more chemist like answer would be redox/oxidation.
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: stonecold on June 05, 2010, 04:28:48 pm
Damn it, in the NEAP book, they say it is hydrolysis.   >:(
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Post by: Stroodle on June 05, 2010, 04:31:42 pm
Man it pisses me off when different books say different things. This is our lives they are messing with  >:(
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Post by: Martoman on June 05, 2010, 04:34:09 pm
Q17 is good.

It challenges your preconceptions.

Like i only ever think of an atom as one not as in kagillions. When it asks for number of electrons im like.... yeah 2 electrons  :-\
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Post by: m@tty on June 05, 2010, 04:36:43 pm
You should look at wikipedia more and NEAP less... .....hydration....


What's question 17? Can't be bothered finding this exam...
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: Martoman on June 05, 2010, 04:42:40 pm
The avagadro constant is the same as the number of

molecules in 16g of oxygen
electrons in 1 g of hydrogen gas
Atoms of 24g of carbon
ions in 1L of 1M sodium chloride solution
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: m@tty on June 05, 2010, 04:43:09 pm
Oh, I liked that question.. :P
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Post by: matty.k on June 05, 2010, 04:50:36 pm
just think of it this way, hydrolysis is the exact opposite of condensation

condensation where monomers are joined and a water is condensed out

hydrolysis is the addition of water to a polymer to split it into its monomers
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Post by: menashiiii on June 05, 2010, 05:08:06 pm
the link doesnt work when i print?!
-.-
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Post by: Greggler on June 05, 2010, 05:23:05 pm
This was the first exam i ever did about 4 weeks ago.

Think i got ~90%

Short answer was a breeze and that hydrolysis one i was like wtf? I've always been told 'any' reaction at all involving water as a reactant could be called hydrolysis.
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Post by: menashiiii on June 06, 2010, 12:34:09 am
what the shit was with Q18?!
what is hydration????
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Post by: Martoman on June 06, 2010, 12:38:37 am
Adding h20 across the double bond
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Post by: menashiiii on June 06, 2010, 01:16:11 am
is that so..?
where is this in heinemann chem 2?
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Post by: Martoman on June 06, 2010, 01:17:58 am
Eh wikipedia it.

heinemann isn't the be-all-end-all of existence.
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Post by: 8039 on June 06, 2010, 10:42:08 am
LAWL i lost 4 as well. 3 actually, i need to learn to count

Still don't like this question tho, 18:

1-propene reacts with H20

Is this a hydration or hydrolysis? Its both!?.... bad question i think.

Also q1 if you have then you have to consider the effect of 2 in the oxidation equation.... T.T I usually ignore the coefficients but it not a coefficient is it....

yeah and last question : It can be fermentation as well as a redox/oxidation *sigh* @ solutions.

Goddamn Heinemann...

Ok so simply put, hydration is water molecules being added to a substance... hydrolosis breaks the substance down
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Post by: 8039 on June 06, 2010, 11:08:33 am
I went with molecules in 16g of oxygen... I'm screwed -_-

For Q.11 I can only find 3 environments (CH3 on both sides being same) can someone help?
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Post by: Martoman on June 06, 2010, 11:54:05 am
It aint symmetrical, so they are all in different environments.
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Post by: Blakhitman on June 06, 2010, 12:28:19 pm
I thought hydrolysis was the splitting of water? I would've put hydrolysis as well.

Lucky I came across this thread today!
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Post by: Studyinghard on June 06, 2010, 12:46:01 pm
Think of hydration as opposed to dehydration. When your dehydrated you have no water but when your hydrated you have water.
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Post by: kenhung123 on June 06, 2010, 01:01:49 pm
STAV 08 is so weird..I can't say its hard its just that the questions they ask aren't really chemistry...
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Post by: menashiiii on June 06, 2010, 01:57:59 pm
can someone run through the yield question for me?
totally suck at yield
>.<
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Post by: chansthename on June 06, 2010, 02:12:07 pm
say that you calculate that you should get 2g of a molecule, but you only get 1g after your reaction.

you would do amount (in g) obtained *100/ amount calculated possible.

so in this case 1*100/2 = 50%
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Post by: m@tty on June 06, 2010, 02:13:47 pm
It's the mass you get expressed as a percentage of the mass you expected.
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Post by: Martoman on June 06, 2010, 02:19:53 pm
I think of it as how "happy I am" percentage.

Like I expect to get 100 marks out of 100 for a test.

But i only get 67 marks.

Iam so i am 67 parts out of 100 happy so 67/100 *100 = 67% yeild of happiness  :smitten:
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Post by: menashiiii on June 06, 2010, 02:27:46 pm
I think of it as how "happy I am" percentage.

lolllllll, great analogy :P
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: vexx on June 07, 2010, 12:28:06 am
i just did this, and yes i agree with you martoman, it was ridiculously easy-
exceptt the mark i lost was something i actually didn't know since i keep avoiding going over biofuels - i didn't know that the fermentation reaction of glucose had a 'general name' of oxidation reaction, so unless vcaa is nicer, i lost a mark for saying fermentation;p
it's fine though since the exam is out of 86 :D
Title: Re: STAV 09
Post by: Martoman on June 07, 2010, 12:29:23 am
 your happiness yield was 85 / 86 * 100 ?
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Post by: vexx on June 07, 2010, 12:31:25 am
your happiness yield was 85 / 86 * 100 ?

haha pretty much, and i was expected the theoretical yield- but like aspirin that never happens><