3rd Test

Question 0

Came up with modern method for writing the symbol for an element

Answer 0

Jon’s Jakob Berzelius

Question 1

Mixture of tin and lead

Answer 1

Pewter

Question 2

Discovered nitrogen

Answer 2

Daniel Rutherford

Question 3

Discovered that static electricity was miniature lightning

Answer 3

Benjamin Franklin

Question 4

Italian medical scientist who discovered that static electricity caused frog legs to twitch

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Luigi Galvani

Question 5

Mixture of copper and tin

Answer 5

Bronze

Question 6

A process that prevents iron from rusting

Answer 6

Painting

Question 7

Created te first electric battery

Answer 7

Alessandro Volta

Question 8

Used electricity to separate oxygen from various elements and discovered many elements in this way

Answer 8

Humphrey Davy

Question 9

The alkali metals made from ash

Answer 9

Are members of the sodium family, and have a silvery luster and conduct electricity and heat are soft, melt at a low temperature

Question 10

The Royal Society was formed to

Answer 10

Communicate new ideas rapidly

Question 11

Current electricity is due to the motion of

Answer 11

Electrons

Question 12

Humphrey Davy invented a safety lamp for miners

Answer 12

He refused to patent so that miners could get it more quickly

Question 13

Diamonds and graphite

Answer 13

Are two forms of carbon

Question 14

Iron

Answer 14

Is a metal used by the Aztecs that fell from the sky

Question 15

Reacts to the oxygen in water so fast that it ignites hydrogen making water burn

Answer 15

Potassium

Question 16

Used to make soap, windows, salt and baking soda

Answer 16

Sodium

Question 17

False science

Answer 17

Alchemy

Question 18

The element necessary for

Combustion

Answer 18

Oxygen

Question 19

Shooting stars

Answer 19

Meteorites

Question 20

Sterling silver is ______ silver and _____ another metal

Answer 20

11/12, 1/12

Question 21

A block of ______ will float in mercury

Answer 21

Lead

Question 22

Synthetic diamonds are made by using great _______ and _________

Answer 22

Pressure and temperature

Question 23

_______ is the lightest gas

Answer 23

Hydrogen

Question 24

Robert Boyle gave is the modern definition of ________ which proved that alchemy was impossible

Answer 24

Element

Question 25

______ causes fires to burn well

Answer 25

Oxygen

Question 26

Most of the air is made up of ______

Answer 26

Nitrogen

Question 27

Often credited with discovering carbon dioxide

Answer 27

Joseph Priestly

Question 28

Famous scientist who defined the laws of gravity and was born the same year Galileo died

Answer 28

Isaac Newton

Question 29

Goodyear discovered vulcanized rubber when he

Answer 29

Heated sulfur with raw rubber

Question 30

The invisible college was

Answer 30

A gathering of experiments scientists

Question 31

Cavendish released the gas hydrogen by exposing metals to

Answer 31

Hydrochloric acid

Question 32

Cast iron, steel, and wrought iron differ only in the amount of this element in them

Answer 32

Iron

Question 33

Reacts to the oxygen in water so fast that it ignites hydrogen making water burn

Answer 33

Potassium

Question 34

Discovered hydrogen

Answer 34

Henry Cavendish

Question 35

In ancient times ________ was even more valuable than gold

Answer 35

Iron

Question 36

Burning is an example of _______ oxidation

Answer 36

Rapid

Question 37

__________ was an American scientist who saw a meteorite fall and began investigating

Answer 37

Benjamin Silliman

Question 38

Latin name for lead

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Plumbum

Question 39

A negative characteristic of gold is that it's ________

Answer 39

Soft

Question 40

Though _______ is poisonous it can be made safe by combining it with metal such as silver.

Answer 40

Mercury

Question 41

A metal is a solid material that is typically hard, shiny , __________ and capable of being drawn out into wire of thread

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Malleable

Question 42

The most important compound using sulfur is ___________. It is used in car batteries and to clean metal before manufacturing

Answer 42

Sulfuric acid

Question 43

Alchemists believed that gold could be made by combining sulfur because it was _________ and lead because it was __________.

Answer 43

Yellow, heAvy

Question 44

One of the ten greatest scientists of all time is ________. He was a chemist who helped get science back on track.

Answer 44

Robert Boyle

Question 45

Robert Boyle made __________ out of phosphorous and sulfur

Answer 45

Matches

Question 46

When in the presence of oxygen, hydrogen is very ________

Answer 46

Explosive