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Halide

Chemistry; General chemistry

A compound or ion containing fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or astatine.

Phosphate

Chemistry; General chemistry

1. The PO4-3 ion. 2. A compound containing the PO4-3 ion.

Xenon

Chemistry; General chemistry

Element 54, a colorless, inert gas used to fill cathode ray tubes.

Crystallisation

Chemistry; General chemistry

The process of forming pure crystals by freezing a liquid, evaporating a solution, or precipitating a solid from solution. Impurities remain in the liquid, so crystallisation is often to purify ...

Lipophilic

Chemistry; General chemistry

Refers to a substance's solubility in fat. Lipophilicity can be measured by shaking the substance with a two-phase mixture of water and 1-octanol and observing the final concentrations of the ...

Spectator ion

Chemistry; General chemistry

A spectator ion is an ion that appears as both a reactant and a product in an ionic equation . For example, in the ionic equation Ag+(aq) + NO3-(aq) + Na+(aq) + Cl-(aq) = AgCl(s) + Na+(aq) + ...

Base hydrolysis constant

Chemistry; General chemistry

The equilibrium constant for the hydrolysis reaction associated with a base. For example, Kb for ammonia is the equilibrium constant for NH3(aq) + H2O( ) NH4+(aq) + OH-(aq), or Kb = ...