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Physical Science
Periodic Table
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who created the periodic table? | Antoine Lavoiser, but Dmitri Mendeleev created the modern version of it. |
| Mendeleev organized the periodic table according to what? | mass |
| AMU | Atomic Mass Unit, defined as one twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 unit. |
| The number of protons in an element | Atomic number |
| What is a period? | Each row horizontally in the periodic table |
| What is a group? | Each column in the periodic table. |
| Atomic law | The pattern of repeating properties. |
| Atomic mass | a value that depends on the distribution of an element's isotopes in nature and the masses of those isotopes. |