MinuteEarth
Why The Ocean Needs Salt
Our oceans don’t technically contain salt, but the ions salt is made of play a critical role in planet-wide processes that make the Earth habitable.
SciShow
How We Feel Pain, From Peppers to Pressure
We didn't understand how our bodies processed pain until recently. From hot peppers to slamming your hand in a drawer, recent research suggests that pain from various sources can be processed in a surprisingly similar way.
Crash Course
How To Speak Chemistrian: Crash Course Chemistry
Learning to talk about chemistry can be like learning a foreign language, but Hank is here to help with some straightforward and simple rules to help you learn to speak Chemistrian like a native. Table of Contents Determining Formulas...
Curated Video
How to Make Ionic Compounds
Howcast - Ionic compounds consist of two or more ions held together by electrical attraction. Ions with a positive charge are called cations while ions with a negative charge are called anions.
Curated Video
Understanding Frenkel Defects
Switching Locations: Understanding Frenkel Defects In the event that an ion is absent from its lattice site, resulting in a vacancy or a hole in that location, and it occupies an interstitial site, the compound will be able to maintain...
Curated Video
Anion Vacancies and F Centres in Metal Excess Defects
The formation of F-centers in a crystal is caused by the presence of anion vacancies, which are caused by the presence of metal excess defects. Alkali metal halides, such as sodium chloride and potassium chloride, are examples of...
Curated Video
Cations and Anions Explained - What's the difference?!
Ions are all around you and in many of the products and substances you encounter on a daily basis. Being able to determine the identity and difference between cations and anions is important for success in chemistry and physical science....
Curated Video
Exploring Crystalline and Ionic Solids
Exploring Crystalline Ionic Solids. Crystalline solids have a regular internal arrangement of particles, a long range order, and sharp melting points. They are hard and rigid, with a characteristic heat of fusion. They are anisotropic,...
Curated Video
The Schottky defect and its consequences
The Schottky defect and its consequences Ionic crystals of type A B exhibit a Schottky defect, where an equal number of anions and cations are absent from lattice sites to maintain electrical neutrality. This defect is present in highly...
Curated Video
Fajan’s Rules: Predicting Ionic vs. Covalent Bonds
Fajan's rules explain how factors like ion size, charge, and polarizability determine whether a bond will be predominantly ionic or covalent
Curated Video
Cations at Work: Shaping Ionic Bonds
Cations, formed by electron loss, influence ionic bond strength. Smaller cations with higher charges create stronger ionic interactions
Curated Video
Ionic Bonds: Chemistry’s Magnetic Attractions
Ionic bonds form due to the electrostatic attraction between positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, often resulting in crystalline solids
Curated Video
Why does chemistry happen?! Element Stability and the Octet Rule!
Why does chemistry happen?? Why do ions form?? Why do elements bond together?? These are all important questions and the answer comes back to one very important principle in chemistry and that is element stability. Elements are stable...
Curated Video
Valence Electrons & Lewis Dot Diagrams - what are they and how do I draw them?
Valence electrons are the electrons in the outermost energy level of an atom. They are important because they are involved in the chemical bonding of our elements which helps determine the reactivity of elements. In order to be stable,...
Curated Video
4 Things to Know to Pass Chemistry
Chemistry is a class that most students will have to take in order to pass chemistry and graduate from high school. In this video, we go over 4 things that you must know in order to pass chemistry! Topic 1: Atomic Structure Topic 2: Atom...
Catalyst University
Theory of Thermodynamic Activity and Ionic Strength
Theory of Thermodynamic Activity and Ionic Strength
FuseSchool
Neutralisation of Alkalis
Learn the basics about solubility rules for insoluble salts, as part of the overall acids, bases and alkali topic.
Catalyst University
What is Lactate and Lactic Acid?
In this video, we discuss how lactate is formed in skeletal muscle and under what conditions such as high-intensity exercise. Also, we will dispel some misconceptions regarding lactate.
Schooling Online
Chemistry Properties and Structure of Matter: Properties of Matter - Naming Binary Ionic compounds
This lesson will reveal the rules for writing the names and chemical formulae of ionic compounds, by balancing charges and using the cross method.
Definitions included: ionic compound, binary ionic compound, oxidation state
Curated Video
Electrolysis of Aqueous Copper Sulfates
The video is a lecture presentation on the electrolysis of aqueous copper sulfates. It begins with an explanation of what electrolysis is and what is in the aqueous solution of the metal salt. The presenter then goes on to make some...
Professor Dave Explains
Nomenclature of Hydrated Salts
As long as we're naming stuff, let's name these hydrated salts! You know, like epsom salts?
FuseSchool
Electrolysis Of Molten Compounds
Learn the basics about Electrolysis of Molten Compounds. What is electrolysis? What are molten compounds? Find out more in this video!
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Family of Salts
It explains salts, namely normal, acidic, basic, double, mixed and complexed salts.
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Ionization of Acids and Bases
It explains the ionisation of acids and bases. It explains the term conjugate acids and bases. It derives the expression to calculate ionic product of water.