Atoms & Compounds Flashcards
Goals of alchemists
Transmutation and panacea
What is transmutation
Turning things into gold
What is panacea
The elixir of life [healing and longevity]
Goals of Science/ Chemistry
Knowledge and truth
Difference between methods of alchemy and science
Alchemy’s methods are random and the variables are uncontrolled. They use philosophical principles and systems, to describe, explain, and predict the future. Science’s method is systematic and the variables are systematically controlled. They use the scientific process with math, to find patterns {using graphs & formulas}. to describe, explain, and predict the future.
Findings of Alchemy
Kept top secret, passed on to apprentices
Findings of Science
Published and peer reviewed
Beliefs of alchemy
Believed matter to be infinitely divisible
Believed in magic
Things can become more than the sum of their parts
Beliefs of science
Believe matter to be discrete.
Believe in atoms
Don’t believe in any magic
All things have a physical cause and effect involving a conservation of matter and energy. Things are the sum of their parts.
Scope of alchemy
Holistic: Integrating the material, psychological, and spiritual
Scope of science
Specific: Focused on the material (the physical ad chemical aspects)
Steps of how a mass spectrometer works:
- The sample is heated until it becomes a gas (vaporized)
- The gas is then ionized.
- The ions are shot through a slit through a magnetic field.
- The magnetic field exerts a force on those ions causing them to deflect (bend)
- The ions with the least mass are deflected the most, the ions with the most mass are deflected the least. Thus the magnetic field creates a spectrum of the various masses.
- A computer counts how many ions land on each part of the screen and determines how many percent abundance.
What is a mass spectrometer used for?
Used to find cell abundance
What interacts in ionic bonds?
Metal and non-metal atoms
What interacts in covalent bonds?
Non-metal and non-metal atoms
What happens to atoms in ionic bonds?
Atoms become ions that form crystalline lattices when solid
What happens to atoms in covalent bonds?
Atoms form molecules that stay together regardless of phase. Molecules may also form crystals (like sugar).
Naming for ionic bonds?
Naming may involve the classical or the Stock system and polyatomic ions such as oxy anions.
Naming for covalent bonds?
Naming may include Greek prefixes.
When did Atomic Theory begin?
In 440 BC with Democritus
Who believed in atoms?
Democritus. He believed that everything was made up of building blocks (atomos) meaning ‘indestructible’