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List of radioactive elements with no stable isotopes, plus their most stable isotopes, half-lives, key facts, and PDF for printing.
Chemistry departments often have kits of plastic balls to stick together to represent atoms and their arrangement in molecules. These kits come with several different colors to easily distinguish one element from another. The choice of color for each atom is not arbitrary. The color code of these atoms is known as CPK colors.
The ice to steam problem is a classic heat energy homework problem. This will outline the steps necessary to complete this problem and follow up with a worked example problem.
These two heat of vaporization example problems will show how to use heat of vaporization to find the energy needed to change between liquid and gas phases.