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people chem chapter4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Democritus | the first person who said the word atom |
| Why was Democritus a fool | He had no scientific evidence to back up his theory |
| What did Democritus believe | he beelvied that atoms were indivisible and indestructible |
| Aristotle | Rejected the theory of atoms |
| What did aristotle believe | he believed in the 4 core elements of fire earth water air |
| Antoine lavoisier | Created the law conservation of matter |
| What is the law conservation of matter | Matter is not created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction |
| Joseph Proust | Law of definite proportions |
| What is the law of definite proportions | when adding the mass of two elements it has to be the same every time so if o has 16 and hydrogen has 2 you always need to get 18 |
| John Dalton | law of multiple proportions believed elements are indivisible solid spheres all atoms of an elemet are identical different elements different masses combine in whole numbers |
| what is the law of multiple proportions | When 2 elements form more than one compound they do so in a ratio of whole numbers |
| what is wrong with Dalton's atomic theory | atoms are divisible in 3 subatomic particles |
| JJ thomson | Who did the cathode ray tube experiment and the plum pudding model |
| WHo named an electron | JJ Thomson named it |
| What is the cathode ray tube | the cathode ray tube was when electrons travel from the cathode ray is negative and then the metal disks were positive so they attracted |
| Ernest Rutherford | who did the Gold foil experiment |
| WHat did Rutherford believe | atoms have a empty space but its dense at the nucleus and nucleus has a positive charge |