#genchem

this is the zine i made last year before i transferred out of my old college. it's about how to survive general chemistry I and II.

basically, i did the freshman genbio/genchem gauntlet as an older student. i had a pretty stable life and it still made me crazy. i was like man, they're really putting freshmen through this? they are so little and stressed out of their minds.

due to the way higher ed works right now i can not save them but leaving this behind was my way of hopefully contributing some kind of comfort to that experience.

first general chemistry laboratory demonstration: survived!🌞🦩👩🏻‍🍼🧪

Percent Composition by mass (mass of a solute per mass of solution times 100%) is used for aqueous solutions and solid-in-solid solutions

The mole fraction (moles of solute per total molecules) is used for calculating vapor pressure depression and partial pressures of gases in a system

Molarity (moles of solute per liters of solution) is the most common unit for concentration and is used for rate laws, the law of mass action, osmotic pressure, pH and pOH, and the Nernst equation

Molality (moles of solute per kilograms of solvent) is used for boiling point elevation and freezing point depression

Normality (number of equivalents per liters of solution) is the molarity of the species of interest and is use for acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions