Chemical Reaction : Chemical Interactions

A chemical reaction is the process in which chemicals Glossary A chemical is any substance that is composed of one or more atoms of an element or of a compound consisting of different elements. The term chemical is used to refer to a ... are converted from one chemical species Glossary Chemical species are atoms, molecules, ions, or any composition of atoms that are in a chemical reaction, chemical process or under measurement. It is a chemical ... to another. The process involves the interaction between reactants Glossary A reactant is any chemical substance that undergoes a chemical change during a chemical reaction. Reactants are the starting materials in the reaction which depletes in ... to form products Glossary Products are the chemical substances that are formed in chemical reactions. The products are formed when reactants undergo chemical changes and depletes in quantity as ... in which atoms and molecules recombine by breaking or forming chemical bonds Glossary A chemical bond is the force that exists between two atoms of a molecule that binds the two atoms together. An atom may bond to one or more atoms in the molecular...
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Chemicals that take part in the reactions are either elements Glossary An element is a chemical substance in which atoms form a unique species of one type of atom and cannot be further broken down into simpler chemicals by physical separation ... or compounds Glossary A compound is a chemical substance that is usually in some measurable quantity of mass in which its material is comprised of the same molecules. The different atoms of one .... Elemental species Glossary An elemental species is a chemical species in elemental form. These can be in monoatomic (e.g. C) or molecular (e.g. O₂) form. can be in monoatomic (e.g. C) or molecular (e.g. O₂) form. The properties of the reactants and the conditions that they are present under dictates whether a particular reaction will take place, how fast it will proceed, and allows one to predict the products that will be formed.

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Published on: 10 Dec 2017 at 1830.
Last updated: 7 Jul 2018 at 1538