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Apologia Chem M 3A
Atomic Structure
Question | Answer |
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Chemists often use things that we can see to | learn about things we cannot see. |
Ecclesiastes 8:17 tells us, | "No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun." |
We can also use indirect observation | to help us learn about atoms. |
Democritus | first theorized about atoms some 2,400 years ago. |
William Crookes | 1800s, English Chemist, studied how certain gases behaved when exposed to electricity |
Crookes tube | also called a cathode ray tube |
JJ Thomson | English Chemist, demonstrated that one of Dalton's main assumptions was wrong, discovered that cathode rays were electrically charged |
Understanding electricity begins with | understanding the concept of the electrical charge. |
We know how electrical charges behave and how they generate electricity, but | we really don't know much about what they are or where they come from. |
There are two types of electrical charges: | positive and negative. |
Something that does not have an overall electrical charge is called electrically | neutral. |
first rule of electrical charge: | Like charges repel each other. |
second rule of electrical charge: | Opposite charges attract each other. |
Thomson discovered and named | electrons. |
Ernest Rutherford, Thomson's student, discovered and named | protons. |
James Chadwick | 1932, English scientist, discovered and named the electrically neutral neutron |
By 1932, scientists had determined that atoms were | made up of 3 components: protons, electrons, and neutrons. |
An atom's atomic number tells | how many protons it contains. |
All atoms have | an equal number of electrons and protons. |
Isotopes are | atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. |
Isotopes behave | identically in their chemistry. |
The main difference between isotopes is in their | mass. |
Mass number is the | total number of neutrons and protons in an atom. |
isotopic enrichment | artificially changing the ratio of isotopes within an element |
plum pudding model | proposed by JJ Thomson, first proposed model for how electrons were believed to be found within an atom, disproved by Rutherford |
alpha particles | positive particles emitted by certain radioactive isotopes |
Rutherford model | planetary model of the atom, with protons clustered together in the center (called the nucleus), while the electrons orbit around the nucleus |
nucleus | the center of the atom |