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Chapter 1
P1.1 a. chemical; b. chemical; c. physical; d. physical; e. physical;
f. chemical P1.2 a. homogeneous; b. heterogeneous; c. heteroge-
neous; d. homogeneous; e. homogeneous; f. heterogeneous
P1.3 Answers to this problem may vary. The following solution is
only one possibility.
Step 1: Formulating a question: The question is provided: “There is a
dark liquid in my cup. What is the liquid and how did it get there?”
Step 2: Finding out what is already known about your question. Yo u
could ask people nearby if they knew what was in your cup, or if
they had themselves poured the liquid in the cup. You may have your
answer to the question after completing this step. Similar findings
occur in scientific investigations in that a specific problem may have
already been solved. Step 3: Making observations. Your first observa-
tions may be the odor you smell from the cup, the actual color and
deepness of color of the liquid, and the thickness of the liquid in the
cup. As a final step, you may wish to taste the liquid, which should
provide the true identity of the liquid. Step 4: Creating a hypothesis:
Here you would begin to posit an explanation of how the liquid got
into your cup: “My friend Anne poured the coffee into my cup.” Or
“My nephew emptied his juice cup into my cup.” To pose the proper
question you need to both identify what is in the cup and how it got
there. Step 5: Designing and performing experiments. You could create
several experiments that could range from asking everyone around if
they had seen what had happened to checking for fingerprints. If this
is a repeated occurrence, you could hold a “stakeout.”
Depending on what you find, you may need to change your hy-
pothesis. For example, Anne might not have been to school or work
that day and couldn’t have done it. If it is a repeated occurrence and
the same thing happened each time, you might have a reasonable
theory that stated: “My nephew empties his grape juice into my cup
each time he is here.” Otherwise, if a reasonable explanation cannot
be found, you might be limited to stating a law such as “Each Tues-
day, coffee appears in my cup.” P1.4 104°C, 377 K P1.5 intensive
P1.6 3.0 × 10
1
cm
3
P1.7 a. 24600 g; b. 15.5 gal; c. $19.51CN
P1.8 1003 m
2
, 1,555,200 in
2
P1.9 a. five; b. three or four; c. two;
d. four;problem:two
1. “Chemistry is concerned with the systematic study of the matter of
our universe. This study involves the composition, structure, and
properties of matter.” Because chemistry is a systematic study (fol-
lowing the scientific method) of our surroundings, it is a science.
3. Some possible answers include carpet, plastic soda bottles, com-
puters, foods, inks, building materials, ceramic tile, sunglasses,
anything! 5. The recipe will work only if we add 1 cup of water (no
more, no less) to the mix. Too much water and the batter will be thin
and watery; too little water and there might not be enough liquid to
fully mix and bind the ingredients. Likewise, precise amounts are
required for chemical reactions and processes to ensure that the cor-
rect products or processes are achieved. 7. An element is composed
of only a single type of atom and cannot be further simplified by
chemical or physical processes, whereas a compound is composed of
more than one type of atom (or element) and can be separated into
its component elements. Oxygen, carbon, and sodium are three
examples of elements. Water, salt, and rust (iron oxide) are three
examples of compounds. 9. Elemental oxygen exists as a diatomic
molecule (it contains two atoms of oxygen). It is an element because
there is only one type of atom involved. It is a molecule because
more than one atom constitutes this natural form. It is not a com-
pound because there are not two or more different types of atoms
involved. 11. Both can be separated into simpler substances: the
mixture by mechanical means into its component parts and the
compound by chemical means into its component elements.
13. a. element; b. compound: sodium and chlorine; c. compound:
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen; d. element; e. compound: sulfur, copper,
oxygen; f. element 15. a. both possible; b. heterogeneous; c. hetero-
geneous; d. homogeneous; e. heterogeneous; f. heterogeneous
17. distillation, reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, boiling/freezing
19. a. physical; b. chemical; c. physical; d. physical 21. It is a mixture
of several gases: oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and others. 23. By stating
that we should “Eat natural food, not chemicals,” the writer implies
that natural food is not made up of chemicals. All the food we eat is
exactly that—chemicals. All everyday matter is composed of chemi-
cals! What the writer was trying to convey is that we should eat nat-
ural food, not synthetically or artificially produced chemicals (or ad-
ditives) or those foods produced with pesticides, artificial fertilizers,
etc. 25. You would make observations to gather data about what is
not working or why it is not working. Based on those observations
you could develop a working hypothesis that was consistent with
your observations that might explain what had happened. You
would then develop experiments that would test your hypothesis.
Depending on the outcome of the tests, you will have either solved
the problem or ruled out your hypothesis, which would make a new
hypothesis and experiments necessary. 27. Anything that involves
observation or analysis of experimental data can be open to interpre-
tation and can influence what hypotheses or further experiments
might be developed. To some extent, finding out what is already
known and what well-established theories exist should be the least
ambiguous because they have been the most extensively tested and
refined. 29. A hypothesis is a possible explanation for some obser-
vations, usually with little or no testing. With much testing, a
hypothesis may eventually become a theory, which carries much
more weight scientifically than a hypothesis. 31. Conflicting results
can often be attributed to the fact that some variable is not the same
in the two studies. 33. Some of the important questions: Are the
fishes dying only in town? Are there places in the river where they
are not dying? Are there contaminants in the water known to be
lethal to fish? How do the levels of the contaminants vary with prox-
imity to the industrial area, to the farmland, and to the town? Chem-
ical analysis of the water at various locations, surveys of fish popula-
tions, and analysis of contaminants in the fish themselves are all tests
that should be conducted. 35. 1 terameter > 1 kilometer >
1 millimeter > 1 nanometer 37. a.
1 × 10
5
g; b. 2.59 × 10
−2
km;
c. 77°F; d. 3.20 × 10
−3
g; e. 9.11 × 10
3
pm; f. 37.0°C 39. a. 8.7 ×
10
6
mg; b. 2.59 m; c. 374°F; d. 3.20 × 10
−4
kL; e. 9.11 × 10
9
ns;
f. 177°C 41. 20 containers 43. a. 3.27 × 10
5
m; b. 3.27 × 10
8
mm;
c. 3.27 × 10
11
m; d. 3.27 ×10
14
nm 45. 13.6 g/mL 47. 1.36 g/mL
49. a. m s
−1
; b. m s
−2
; c. m
3
; d. J kg
−1
K
−1
51. ruler with four divi-
sions between each number 53. 172°F, 162°F 55. 6.5 × 10
7
atoms
57. a. 7 ×10
1
ms; b. 2.8 × 10
5
s; 59. The red tomato is denser.
Two tomatoes with the same mass can have different densities
because they have different volumes; the red tomato must have a
smaller volume than the green tomato, even though they have the
same mass. 61. The density of the water would decrease. We can
write the formula Density = mass/volume. As the volume increases
with no change in the mass, the density goes down.
63. 4 “just a bits”
65.
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