Chemistry Questions

Alum is a common alum, potassium aluminum sulphate K2SO4.Al2SO43.24H2O which makes colloidally suspended impurities in water such as clay to settle down.

As the ionization energies of the elements decreases down the group carbon has got the highest ionization energy in the group being at the top of the group.

Carbon is on the top of the group 4 among the given elements. Hence, Carbon has the highest ionization energy.

We know that polar substances are soluble in polar solvents and non polar substances are soluble in non-polar solvents only. Here the hydrocarbons are non-polar molecular substances and water is a polar solvent. So water can't dissolve hydrocabons.

Hence, as hydrocarbons are non-polar substances, they are insoluble in water as it is a highly polar solvent. 

A colored ion generally indicates a transition metal.

In chemistry, Weak bonds are those forces of attraction that, do not take a large amount of energy to break.

For example, hydrogen bonds are broken by energies in the order of 4 - 5 kcal/mol.

Ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds and van der Waals interactions are considered weak bonds.

Weak bonds are transient and easily reversible.

The Aufbau Principle states that in the ground state of an atom, an electron enters the orbital with lowest energy first and subsequent electrons are fed in the order of increasing energies.