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Chemistry_ch.4
Question | Answer |
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Who thought matter was sformed of air, eath, fire, and water? | Greek philosophers |
it was commonly accepted that ______ could be endlessly divided into smaller and smaller pieces | matter |
___________was the first person to propose matter was _________________ | Democritus; not infinitely divisible |
Democritus believed that matter was made up of tiny particles called? | atomos |
________ revised and revived Democtitus's ideas. | JOhn Dalton |
Daltons ________ included: all matter is composed of extremely small particles called ________ | Atomic theory; atoms |
All atoms have the same size, mass, and chemical properties. | True |
Atoms of a specific element are the same from those of any other element | False; different |
Atoms cannot be_________ or ________ | created or destroyed |
In a ___________________ atoms are seperated,________ or reorganized | Chemical reaction; combined |
The smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of the element is called an | atom |
______ are so small that they can only be seen by using a ____________________ | atoms; scanning tunneling microscope |
negatively charge particles that are part of all forms of matter are called? | electrons |
the electron was discovered by _____________ | j.j thomson |
_________ proposed the ____________ atomic model | thomson; plum pudding |
___________ determined the mass of an electron to be 9.1 X 10 (-28) g | Robert Millikan |
Ernest ________ performed ________ experiment. he discovered that atoms had a small dense center region called a _________ | Rutherford; gold foil; nucleus |
Rutherford also concluded that the nucleus of an atom conains ________ charged particles called protons | positive |
subatomic particle that carries a charge equal to but opposite than that of an electro | proton |
________ showed that the nucleus also contained a neutral particle called the ________ | James chadwick; neutron |
A neutron has a mass nearly equal to that of a ____________ but carries no ___________ charge | Proton; electrical |
number of protons in an atom is | atomic number |
___________ determines an elements position on the ____________ | atomic number; periodic table |
Atomic Number= number of protons= number of electrons | true |
atoms with the same number of protons but different number of ____________ are called _________ | neutrons; isotopes |
represents the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus | mass number |
= atomic number from the mass number | number of neutrons |
mass of subatomic particles is measured int | atomic mass units |
atomic mass unit is defined as | 1/2 the mass of a carbon-12 atom |
weighted average mass of the isotopes of that element | atomic mass |
_____________ involve an atom of one element changing into an atom of another element | nuclear reactions |
substances that emit radiation | radiactive |
the ____ and ________ emitted by a radioactive material is called radiation | rays and particles |
radioactive atoms emit radiation because their _______ are unstable | Nuclei |
made up of alpha particles | alpha radiation |
consists of fast moving electrons called beta particles | beta radiation |
consists of gamma rays ( high energy radiation that possess no mass) | gamma radiation |
a ________equation show the atomic number and mass number of the particles involved | nuclear |