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1
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What are all substances made from?

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Atoms

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What is an atom?

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The smallest part of an element that can exist

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Atoms of each element are represented by what?

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A chemical symbol

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How many different elements are there and where are they shown?

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There are about 100 different elements. Elements are shown in the periodic table

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What are compounds formed from?

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They are formed from elements by chemical reactions

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What do chemical reactions always involve?

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Chemical reactions always involve the formation of one or more new substances and often involve a detectable energy change

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7
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What do compounds contain?

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Compounds contains two or more elements chemically combined in fixed proportions

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8
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How can compounds be represented?

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Compounds can be represented by formulae using the symbols of the atoms from which they were formed

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How can compounds be separated?

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Compounds can only be separated into elements by chemical reactions

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10
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What does the nucleus in an atom contain?

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It contains protons and neutrons

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Why does the nucleus in an atom have a positive charge?

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It has a positive charge because of the protons

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12
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How do the electrons move around the atom?

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They move around the nucleus in electron shells

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13
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Are electrons positively or negatively charged?

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They are negatively charged and tiny but they cover a lot of space

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14
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Do electrons have a mass?

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They have virtually no mass

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15
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Where is almost all of the mass of an atom?

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In the nucleus

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16
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What does the sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom create?

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Its mass number

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17
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Atoms of the same element can have different numbers of neutrons. What are these atoms called?

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Isotopes of that element

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18
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Is the mass number the top number or bottom number?

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The top number

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19
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Is the atomic number the top number or the bottom number?

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The bottom number

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20
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What is the relative mass of a proton?

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1

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21
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What is the relative mass of a neutron?

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1

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22
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What is the relative mass of an electron?

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Very small

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23
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What is a proton’s relative charge?

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+1

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24
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What is a neutron’s relative charge?

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0

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25
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What is an electron’s positive charge?

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-1

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26
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In an atom what is the number of electrons is equal to?

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The number of electrons is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus

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27
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Do you atoms have an overall electrical charge?

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No

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28
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What does the atomic number represent?

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The number of protons in an atom

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29
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Why do atoms not have an overall electrical charge?

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Because they have the same number of protons as electrons

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30
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What does the mass number represent?

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The mass number represents the total number of protons and neutrons in the atom

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How do you work out the number of neutrons in an atom?

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Subtract the atomic number from the mass number

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32
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Why does the charge cancel out in an atom?

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Because the charge on the electrons is the same size as the charge on the protons but opposite so the charges cancel out

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33
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Why do ions have an overall charge?

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Because in an ion the number of protons doesn’t equal the number of electrons

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34
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What is an ion?

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An ion is an atom or group of atoms that have lost or gained electrons

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35
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How big is the radius of a nucleus in an atom?

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1×10 to the power of -14

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36
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The radius of the nucleus is less than how much of that of the atom?

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1 out of 10,000

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37
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What are isotopes?

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Different forms of the same element, which have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons

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38
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Isotopes of the same except for what?

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Extra neutrons

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39
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Isotopes have the same atomic number but different what?

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Different mass numbers

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40
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What do mixtures consist of?

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A mixture consists of two or more elements or compounds not chemically combined together

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41
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The chemical properties of each substance in the mixture are what?

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Unchanged

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42
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How can mixtures be separated?

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Physical processes such as filtration, crystallisation, simple distillation, fractional distillation and chromatography

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43
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When mixtures are separated by physical processes it does not involve chemical reactions so are any new substances made?

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There are no new substances made

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44
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Unlike in a compound, there’s no what between the different parts of a mixture?

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There is no chemical bond

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45
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What were atoms thought to be like before the discovery of the electron?

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Atoms were thought to be tiny spheres that could not be divided

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What did the discovery of the electron lead to?

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It led to the plum pudding model of the atom

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47
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The plum pudding model suggests that the atom is a ball of positive charge with what embedded in it?

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Negative electrons

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48
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The results from what experiment led to the conclusion that the mass of an atom was concentrated at the nucleus and that the nucleus was charged?

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Alpha particle scattering experiment

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49
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What replaced the plum pudding model?

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The nuclear model

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50
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Who adapted the nuclear model?

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Niels Bohr

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51
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How did Niels Bohr adapt the nuclear model?

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By suggesting that electrons orbit the nucleus at specific distances

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52
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What did later experiments lead to? What was the name of the particles?

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The idea that the positive charge of any nucleus could be subdivided into a whole number of smaller particles, each particle having the same amount of positive charge. The name proton was given to these particles

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53
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The experimental work of who provided the evidence to show the existence of what within the nucleus

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James Chadwick provided the evidence to show the existence of neutrons within the nucleus

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54
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At the start of which century did who describe atoms as solid spheres and said that different spheres made up the different elements?

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At the start of the 19th century John Dalton

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55
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In 1897 who concluded from his experiments that atoms weren’t solid spheres?

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JJ Thomson

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56
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JJ Thompson’s measurements of charge and mass showed that an atom must contain what?

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Even smaller, negatively charged particles- electrons

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57
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Who conducted the famous alpha particle scattering experiment in 1909?

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Ernest Rutherford and his student Ernest Marsden

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58
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How did Ernest Rutherford and Ernest Marsden conduct the alpha particle scattering experiment?

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They fired positively charged alpha particles at an extremely thin sheet of gold

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59
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Why couldn’t the plum pudding model be right?

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Because while most of the particles went straight through the gold sheet, some were deflected more than expected, and a small number were deflected backwards

60
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Scientists realised that electrons in a ‘cloud’ around the nucleus of an atom would be attracted to the what causing the atom to collapse

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Nucleus

61
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Niels Bohr’s nuclear model of the atom suggested that all electrons are contained in what?

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Contained in shells

62
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What did Bohr propose about electrons?

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That electrons orbit the nucleus in fixed shells and aren’t anywhere in between. Each shell is a fixed distance from the nucleus

63
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What is relative atomic mass?

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The relative atomic mass of an element is an average value that takes account of the abundance of the isotopes of the element

64
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What is the formula to work out the relative atomic mass of an element

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Relative atomic mass= sum of (isotope abundance x isotope mass number) divided by the sum of abundances of all the isotopes

65
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In an atom what occupies the lowest available energy levels?

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The electrons

66
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How can the electronic structure of an atom be represented?

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By numbers or a diagram

67
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What do you electrons always occupy?

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Shells

68
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Which energy levels are always filled first?

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The lowest energy levels are always filled first and are the ones closest to the nucleus

69
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How many electrons are allowed in the first shell?

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2

70
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How many electrons are allowed in the second shell?

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8

71
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How many electrons are allowed in the third shell?

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8

72
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What does the atom want to do when the outer shell is not full?

A

React to fill it

73
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When are atoms happy?

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When they have full electron shells

74
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Before the discovery of protons, neutrons as electrons, how did scientists attempt to classify the elements?

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By arranging them in order of their atomic weight

75
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What was wrong with the early periodic tables?

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They were incomplete

76
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Why were some elements placed in the wrong groups in early periodic tables?

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Because the strict order of atomic weights had been followed

77
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How did Mendeleev overcome some of the problems in the early periodic table?

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By leaving gaps for elements that he thought had not been discovered and in some places changed the order based on atomic weights

78
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What made it possible to explain why the order based on atomic weight was not always correct?

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Knowledge of isotopes

79
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How are elements in the periodic table arranged?

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In order of atomic number and so that the elements with similar properties are in columns known as groups

80
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Why is the table called the periodic table?

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Because similar properties occur at regular intervals

81
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What gives elements in the same group similar chemical properties?

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They have the same number of electrons in their outer shell

82
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What do elements with similar properties form?

A

Columns

83
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What are vertical columns called in the periodic table?

A

Groups

84
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What does the group number tell you? Except group 0

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How many electrons there are in the outer shell

85
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How do the elements react in group 1?

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The elements react more vigourously as you go down the group

86
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How do the elements in group 7 react?

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Reactivity decreases as you go down the group

87
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What are the horizontal rows called?

A

Periods

88
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What does each new period represent?

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Another full set of electrons

89
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Until quite recently what with the two obvious ways to categorise elements?

A

Physical and chemical properties and their relative atomic mass

90
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What are elements that react to form positive ions?

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Metals

91
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What are elements that do not form positive ions?

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Non-metals

92
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Where are metals found in the periodic table?

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To the left and towards the bottom

93
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Where are non-metals found in the periodic table?

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Towards the right and the top

94
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What do metals form when they react?

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Positive ions

95
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What don’t generally form positive ions when they react?

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Non-metals

96
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Metals to the left of the periodic table don’t have many what to remove?

A

Electrons

97
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Metals towards the bottom of the periodic table have outer electrons which are a long way from the nucleus so feel what?

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A weaker attraction

98
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Why is it more difficult for non-metals to form positive ions?

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Because they are either to the right of the periodic table- where they have lots of electrons to remove or towards the top- where the outer electrons are close to the nucleus so feel a strong attraction

99
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What are the elements in group 0 called?

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The noble gases

100
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Are elements in group 0 unreactive?

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Yes

101
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Why do elements in group 0 not easily form molecules?

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Because the atoms have stable arrangements of electrons

102
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How many electrons do the noble gases have in their outer shell

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The noble gases have eight electrons in their outer shell except for helium which has only two

103
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How does the boiling point of the noble gases change

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The boiling points of the noble gases increase with increasing relative atomic mass (going down the group)

104
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What are the noble gases?

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Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon

105
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Why does the boiling points increase as you go down group 0 (noble gases)?

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It is due to an increase in the number of electrons in each atom leading to greater intermolecular forces between them which need to be overcome

106
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As the outer shells of group 0 elements are energetically stable, they don’t need to give up or gain electrons to become more stable this means they are what?

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This means they are more or less inert- which means they don’t react with much at all

107
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What do group 0 elements exist as?

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They exist as monatomic gases- single atoms not bonded to each other

108
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At room temperature what are all the elements?

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Colourless gases

109
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Why are the noble gases non-flammable?

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Because they are inert.

110
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What are the elements in group 1 known as?

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Alkali metals

111
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Why do group 1 elements have characteristic properties?

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Because of the single electron in their outer shell

112
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In group 1, how does the reactivity of the elements change?

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The reactivity of the elements increases going down the group

113
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What do the group 1 elements look like?

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They are silvery solids that have to be stored in oil as they are very reactive

114
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What are the alkali metals?

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Lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, francium

115
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In which group are the elements all soft and have low densities?

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Group 1- alkali metals

116
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The first three elements in group 1 are less dense than what?

A

Water

117
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How many electrons do the group 1 elements have in their outer shell?

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They all have one electron in their outer shell which makes them very reactive and give them similar properties

118
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What are the trends of alkali metals as you go down the group?

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Increasing reactivity, lower melting and boiling points and higher relative atomic mass

119
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It’s so easy for alkali metals to lose their outer electron that they only ever react to form what?

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To form ionic compounds. These compounds are usually white solids that dissolve in water to form colourless solutions

120
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What happens when group 1 metals are put in water?

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They react vigourously to produce hydrogen gas and metal hydroxides—salts that dissolve in water to produce alkaline solutions

121
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The more reactive (lower down the group) an alkali metal is the more what the reaction?

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The more violent the reaction

122
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The amount of what given out by the reaction increases down the group?

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Energy-the reaction with potassium releases enough energy to ignite hydrogen

123
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What happens when group 1 metals react with chlorine?

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Group 1 metals react vigorously when heated in chlorine gas to form white metal chloride salts.

124
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Why will the reaction with chlorine get more vigorous as you go down the group 1 elements?

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Because reactivity increases

125
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What happens when group 1 elements react with oxygen?

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The group 1 elements can react with oxygen to form a metal oxide. Different types of oxide will form depending on the group 1 metal.

126
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Why do group 1 metals tarnish in the air?

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Because group 1 metals react with oxygen in the air to form a full metal oxide layer.

127
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What are the group 7 elements known as?

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The halogens

128
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Why do group 7 elements (halogens) have similar reactions?

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They all have seven electrons in their outer shell.

129
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Are the halogens metals or non-metals?

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Non-metals

130
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The group 7 elements consist of molecules made of what?

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Molecules made of pairs of atoms

131
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How does the reactivity change as you go down the group 7 elements?

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The reactivity decreases going down the group

132
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In group 7, the further down the group an element is the higher the what?

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The higher it’s relative molecular mass, melting point and boiling point

133
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A more reactive halogen can displace a less reactive halogen from what solution?

A

From an aqueous solution of its salt

134
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The halogens are non-metals with what vapours ?

A

Coloured vapours

135
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What is fluorine?

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A very reactive, poisonous yellow gas

136
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What is chlorine?

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A fairly reactive, poisonous dense green gas

137
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What is bromine?

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A dense, poisonous, red-brown volatile liquid

138
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What is iodine?

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A dark grey crystalline solid or purple vapour

139
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The halogens all exist as what which are pairs of atoms?

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They all exist as molecules which are pairs of atoms

140
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Why is it harder to gain an extra electron as you go down group 7?

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Because as you go down, the elements become less reactive so it’s harder to gain an extra electron because the outer shell’s further from the nucleus

141
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Halogen atoms can share electrons via what?

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Via covalent bonding with other non-metals to achieve a full outer shell

142
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Halogens can form what sort of compounds?

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Molecular compounds

143
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What sort of bonds do halogens form with metals?

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Ionic bonds

144
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Halogens form -1 Iona called?

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Halides (F-,Cl-,Br- and I-)

145
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The compounds that halogens form have what sort of structure?

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Ionic structures

146
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More reactive halogens will do what to less reactive ones?

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Displace them

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