Big Idea 3: Changes in matter invlove the rearragnement of and/or reorganization of atoms and/or the transfer of electrons.
Enduring Understanding 3A: Chemical changes are represented by a balanced chemical equation that identifies the ratios with which reactants react and products form.
Enduring Understanding 3B: Chemical reactions can be classified by considering what the reactants are, what the products are, or how they change from one into the other. Classes of chemical reactations include synthesis, decomposistion, acid base and oxidation-reduction reactions.
Enduring Understanding 3C: Chemical and physical transformations may be observed in several ways and typically involve a change in energy.
Hello and welcome to Electrochemistry.
Electrochemisty can be broken down into two main trains of thought.
1. Chemical reactions that produce electricity.
2. Using electricity to produce chemical reactions.
To accomplish these to main goals we will need to learn about how electons are shuffled around in a very specific type of chemical reaction called an oxidation reduction reaction.
The pre-reading for this chapter is all of chapter 19.
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