Chemist

One major reason I can think of, that has not been addressed yet, is the periodicity of the elements. You can line the elements up into neat functional groups--alkali metals, transition elements, halogens and so on. This you could not do with compounds, even if you had a separate table for hydrocarbons, one for elastomers, and one for dyestuffs... Compounds also find wide use as smaller blocks of larger compounds. We call these precursors. Take toluene. It is a very toxic compound, but if you compound it into toluene diisocyanate, then compound that into polyurethane, it becomes safe enough that you can build it into replacement hip joints. Chemists do keep books of compounds, but a table on a big sheet of paper the size of...oh, the entire side of a Wal-Mart store might be big enough? It could never happen.

► Is this your first work experience in the position of an analytical chemist or have you worked in the similar position earlier?

► What according to you is the job profile of an analytical chemist?

► What do you understand by the term titration?

► What is the process of achieving equilibrium by adding certain reactants is known as?

► What are the various kinds of indicators used to reach an equivalence point?

► Define the process of Gravimetric analysis.

► What are the different applications used in the process of spectroscopy?

► What are the various functions of the process of spectroscopy?

► What is the technique that characterizes the chemical structure of materials at atomic level known as?

► Which process do you apply in order to decrease the complexity of material mixtures?

► What is the process that involves comparison of unknown sample to series of known standards by determining the amount of chemical in a material?

► How would you visualize single molecules, nano micro materials, biological tissues and single cells?

► Which process is considered as an important approach in the field of analytical science?

The octet rule is a simple chemical rule of thumb that states that atoms tend to combine in such a way that they each have eight electrons in their valence shells, giving them the same electronic configuration as a noble gas. This 8-electron configuration is especially stable because with 8 valence electrons, the s- and p-orbitals are completely filled (with 2 in the s-orbital, and 6 in the p-orbitals). Having completely filled orbitals provides increased stability due to something called "exchange energy."

The rule is applicable to the main-group elements, especially carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and the halogens, but also the metals in the first two columns of the periodic table (but not to the transition metals in the middle of the periodic table). Note that the elements hydrogen (H) and helium (He) do not follow the octet rule, but rather the "duet" rule (2 electrons) because they do not have any p-orbital electrons.

In simple terms, molecules or ions tend to be most stable when the outermost electron shells of their constituent atoms contain eight electrons. The rule is commonly used in drawing Lewis dot structures.

The HBr molecule is linear (obviously, since it contains only two atoms). The dipole moment is a vector, parallel to the bond, pointing toward the partially positively charged atom, which is, in this case, the hydrogen. The magnitude of the dipole moment is the difference in the partial electrical charges on each atom times the spatial separation of the atoms in the bond. In a molecule with more than two atoms (more than one bond), the dipole moment of each bond must be added vectorially and the resultant vector will determine the dipole moment of the molecule. For instance, carbon dioxide has two carbon-oxygen double bonds of high polarity, but because the molecule is linear, and the individual dipoles oppose each other, the carbon dioxide molecule has no net dipole moment.