Reactions of Carbon Compounds and Everyday Compounds

Name: Reactions of Carbon Compounds and Everyday Compounds
Author: StemPy Lab

Why does a candle give a yellow flame and a gas stove a blue one? What is vinegar? How does soap clean? In this course we learn how carbon compounds burn and react, and we study ethanol, ethanoic acid, soaps and detergents.

3 lessons, about 1 h 15 min3 simulations10 problems6 practice questionsPython in every lesson

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Course outline (3 lessons)

Lesson 1about 25 min
Combustion, oxidation, addition and substitution
Carbon compounds burn to give carbon dioxide, water, heat and light. Saturated hydrocarbons burn with a clean blue flame in plenty of air, and unsaturated ones burn with a yellow sooty flame. Alcohols are oxidised to acids. Unsaturated compounds undergo addition, and saturated ones undergo substitution.
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Lesson 2about 25 min
Ethanol and ethanoic acid
Ethanol is a liquid that mixes with water, and it is the alcohol of drinks. It reacts with sodium to give hydrogen, and with concentrated sulphuric acid it loses water to give ethene. Ethanoic acid is a weak acid that is in vinegar. It reacts with ethanol to make a sweet-smelling ester.
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Lesson 3about 25 min
Soaps and detergents
Soap is the sodium or potassium salt of a long chain carboxylic acid. Its tails dissolve in grease and its heads in water, so the grease is held in micelles and washed away. Soap makes scum in hard water. Detergents are not affected by hard water.
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Reactions of Carbon Compounds and Everyday Compounds

Course outline (3 lessons)

Combustion, oxidation, addition and substitution

Ethanol and ethanoic acid

Soaps and detergents

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