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Total cards: 18•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
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What is primary alcohol?

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has the functional group attached to a carbon atom with no more than one alkyl group.

#2
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What is a secondary alcohol

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has the functional group attached to a carbon atom with two alkyl groups.

#3
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What is a tertiary alcohol?

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has the functional group attached to a carbon atom with three alkyl groups.

#4
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Reflux

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is the constant boiling and condensing of a reaction mixture. This ensures that the reaction goes to completion as fully as possible without loosing reactants or products as vapour to the air.

#5
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Dehydration

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is a chemical reaction in which water molecules are eliminated from an organic compound.

#6
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Elimination

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is an organic reaction in which one reactant forms two products. Usually a small molecule like water is released..

#7
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A primary haloalkane

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has the halogen atom on the end of a chain.

#8
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Nucleophiles

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are electron-pair donors.

#9
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Nucleophilic substitution

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is a chemical reaction in which an atom or group of atoms is exchanged for a nucleophile.

#10
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Hydrolysis

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is a chemical reaction in which water is a reactant. There are alkali hydrolysis reactions where -OH- is the reacting species.

#11
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The ozone layer

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is an area of high concentration of ozone O3, in the stratosphere.

#12
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A radical

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is a highly unreactive species with one or more unpaired electron

#13
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Distillation

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is a technique used to separate miscible liquids or solutions.

#14
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Reflux

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is na technique used to stop reaction mixtures boiing away into the air.

#15
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A separating funnel

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is a piece of equipment used to separate immiscible liquids.

#16
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Redistiliation

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is the purification of a liquid using multiplpe distillations.

#17
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A functional group

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is a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic reactionbs of a compound.

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