What causes chemicals to react with other chemicals?

Answer 1

By substances, I assume you mean chemical reactions. Chemical reactions occur because the products of the reaction have less energy than the reactants (drive toward less energy). These reactions release energy into the environment, like the burning of a match. Chemical reactions also occur because the products are more random (less ordered) than the reactant (drive toward greater entropy).

Answer 2

Substances that react with each other do so because it is a lower energy configuration for them to react. Substances that do not react do so because they are currently in their most stable conditions.

Answer 3

The reaction of two or more elements together results in the formation of a chemical bond between atoms and the formation of a chemical compound (see our Chemical Bonding module). But why do chemicals react together? The reason has to do with the participating atoms' electron configurations (see our The Periodic Table of Elements module).

Answer 4

Because the combination of the the molecules or atoms of one thing with other thing's molecules makes it loose energy and thus stability is increased for both the things.

They try to destroy bonds, create bonds, or replace elements in the opposite substance. It usually has to do with valence electrons, or the ones on the outermost electron shell. Sodium has one, and chlorine has 7. The goal of all elements is to get 8 valence electrons. This explains why the two elements violently react to form stable NaCl, or sodium chloride. Because it is between a metal and non-metal, this is an ionic bond, the strongest. Other common types of bonds are covalent, metallic, and hydrogen bonds.

Answer 5

Nature abhors energy and always tries to minimize it. Iron rusts. Other metals corrode. They are reacting and going to a more energetically favorable state in nature. Compounds react for the same reason. It is energetically favorable and they are going to a lower energy state.

Answer 6

Because they are not from the noble gasses.

Answer 7

Substances go through chemical reactions in order achieve noble gas electron configurations at the lowest possible energy, which makes them more stable.

Answer 8

chemical property

Answer 9

enzymes