@study.markers: idk don’t ask me?? #study #chemistry #alevel #engineering #uni

kayli :

ESPECIALLY in chem

Microsoft Developer :

“Because” 😌👏

kae 🍪 :

“explain how you know-“ well i DON’T know.

DayanIvanov :

For anyone wondering: the stability of the congugate base (when the alchohol loses the proton) is hindered by the alkyl groups. Alkyl groups are electron donating groups and while they help stabilise carbocations they only do so because csrbocations are positive but the resulting conjugate base of an alhohol is negative thus more repulsion begween the alkyl groups and the conjugate base. We know strength of an acid is proportional to stability of its conjugate base. So anything that destabalises the conjugate base results in the acid being weaker.

Toprak Evgür :

Wait I thought alcohols were slightly acidic how are they less acidic than water

MushroomFrog🚦 :

i hate that, like in math there will be a question asking to explain a graph and ik it’s just common sense but i can’t think like that in an exam

alexia :

Because there is one less hydrogen aka proton that can dissociate from the compound

kiasoulnumberonefan :

is it because alcohol has a hydroxide?? (i have not learned ochem and don’t know what the alcohol molecule even looks like)

Kalex :

“Why do we solve this circuit this way?” Me: “because that’s what you taught us to do???”

Randomuser561 :

I literally cry when I see the word “discuss”😭

Gnome :

FR “how do you know this?” You told me bro

ham spam :

what dyou search online to find these tests ?

yfzxn :

“They won’t ask me this in the exam” 😔😔

... :

Like Duh 🙄

Biology Scroll :

explain , describe , compare and contrast

almightocondrion :

Ome of my classmate literally answered "because it's in the textbook" lmao

⚜️🏳️ Armée Du Prince 🏳️⚜️ :

Don’t spoil me I haven’t gotten to the acidic part 🙏

🤜🤛 :

where's EVALUATE 😭😭😭

frederic :

it’s all about electronegativity. OH got a carbon chain around, so OH can draw the electrons from those instead of the electrons making O-H bound making the H less acidic than in H2O, where O can only draw electrons from O-H bounds, making H lot more acidic

mhunor26 :

when the task starts to look like mixed decomposition electrolysis

bruhhi3213 :

Because the r group/carbon chain is electron donnating🥀🙏 ts easiest unit

logan ! :

WOAH UR FAMOUS

Uranium :

gabeliel :

FRR, I SWEAR I COULDN'T GET AND A+ JUST BCZ OF THT

L :

OH is literally the explanation and my reaction to the question😖