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NSCI Quiz #4
Chemistry
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Undergraduate 2
03/11/2008

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element
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any substance with only one kind of atom
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substance
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any form of matter with identifyable properties and characteristics
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compound
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chemical combination of 2 or more elements
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mixture

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2 or more types of matter physically combined
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homogenous

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same throughout
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heterogenous

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different throughout
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von helmont

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grew a willow shoot for 5 yrs. he weighed the potting soil with the willow shoot in it and weighed a pot with just damp soil and both pots weighed the same. somehow the plant took water and turned it into plant.

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priestly experimented with different airs. discovered oxygen but did not name it.
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stahl experimented with combustion (burning). "phlogiston" is the substance once thought to be needed for combustion (before the term "oxygen" was coined).
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Lavoisier
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stole all of Priestly's work on combustion, named "oxygen," became rich and famous.
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Boyle
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did work with air pressure, "corpuscles."
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protons have a ___ charge

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positive
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neutrons have a ___ charge
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neutral
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electrons have a ___ charge
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negative
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atomic number
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# of protons in an element
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atomic mass
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average weight of all the isotopes of a given element
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isotope
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any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties
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how do you tell how many electrons in an atom?
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same as the # of protons
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atom
Definition
collection of negative particles surrounding positive and neutral charges
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Octet Rule
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for an atom to be "happy" there has to be 8e- in the outer shell
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Mendeleev
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came up with the periodic table
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the line on the periodic table
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separates the metals from the nonmetals
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4 groups on the periodic table
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alkali metals, alkali earth metals, halogens, and noble gases
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