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CHEM 090 Lecture 4
Atoms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an atom? | The fundamental building blocks of matter |
| Atoms are made up of? | Protons, Neutrons and Electrons |
| Neurons and protons makes up? | The neucleus |
| What is the atomic number? | Number of protons |
| What is the atomic mass? | Number of protons + number of electrons |
| What charge do protons have? | Positive |
| What charge do electrons have? | Negative |
| What charge do neutrons have? | Neutral |
| Why are Neutrons neutral? | Positive protons are the same as negative electrons so neutrons are neutral to cancel each other and give the atom a neutral charge |
| The way electrons are placed into shells of an atom are called | Electronic configuration |
| The most outer shell in an atom is called. | Valence shell |
| What are isotopes? | Atoms of the same element with the same number of protons and electrons but different number of neutrons |