What is Carnot Cycle? The Carnot cycle was first proposed by a French engineer in 1824 and was expanded upon by others in 1830s and 1840s. It is an ideal cycle in which, the working medium receives the heat energy from the high temperatures and rejects the heat at the lower temperature. This cycle laid … Read more
Calcium hypochlorite also referred to as Calcium oxychloride is an inorganic compound with formula Ca(ClO)₂. It is a white solid, although commercial samples appear yellow. Despite being quite stable at room temperatures, calcium hypochlorite slowly decomposes in moist environments, giving it a characteristic strong smell of chlorine. This compound is relatively stable as a solid … Read more
Seaborgium (Sg) is a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 106. It was first synthesized in 1974 by a team of scientists led by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, USA. Seaborgium was named in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, an American chemist who was one of the principal discoverers … Read more
Metals are chemical elements with general characteristics and similar physical and chemical properties under normal conditions. Examples include aluminum, copper, iron, lead, silver, platinum, uranium and zinc. Metals can further be divided into the following groups: Alkali metals Alkaline Earth Metals Other metals Rare Earth Elements Non–metals are chemical elements that mostly lack the basic … Read more
Ununoctium, now known as Oganesson (Og), eka-radon or element 118 is a synthetic or transactinide chemical element with symbol Uuo and atomic number 118. It was first synthesized in 2002 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory … Read more
Sodium bisulfate, also known as sodium hydrogen sulfate, is the sodium salt of the bisulfate anion, with the molecular formula NaHSO₄. It is an acid salt formed by partial neutralization of sulfuric acid by an equivalent of sodium base, typically in the form of either sodium hydroxide or sodium chloride. It is a dry acid … Read more
Luminous Objects/Bodies Luminous objects, also known as luminous bodies, are entities that emit their own light. This light can be generated through various mechanisms, including chemical reactions, thermal radiation, or nuclear processes. Key takeaways The sun, an example of a luminous object Non-luminous Objects/Bodies Non-luminous objects or bodies are entities that do not emit their … Read more
What is Azeotropic Distillation? Azeotropic distillation is a separation technique used to separate the components of a mixture by forming an azeotrope. Azeotropes are component mixtures with a constant boiling point. This type of mixture cannot be separated into components by simple distillation since all the components have the same boiling point. When an azeotropic … Read more
Gravimetric and Volumetric Analysis are common methods used in analytical chemistry. They provide mechanism for determining the amounts of substances present in a sample, each with its own set of principles, advantages and applications. Let’s talk more about the them. What is Gravimetric Analysis? Gravimetric analysis is a quantitative method used to determine the amount … Read more
Pauli Exclusion Principle An Austrian physicist named Wolfgang Pauli formulated the principle in the year 1925. With this principle, he basically described the behaviour of the electrons. Later in the year 1940, he expanded on the principle to cover all fermions under his spin-statistics theorem. Besides, fermions that are described by the principle include elementary particles … Read more