CH2) Atoms, Molecules, and Ions Flashcards
Structure of Matter
Atoms
Composed of electrons, protons and neutrons
The structure of matter
Molecules
Combination of atoms
the structure of matter
Ions
charged particles
Jhon Dalton and Atomic theory
- Different conbinations produce different compounds
- Atoms of difference elements have different masses
- no atom disapears or is changed in chemical reaction
Fundamental laws of matter
3 fundamental laws of matter
- law of conservation of mass
- lasw of constant composition
- laws of multiple proportions
Components of the Atom
what are atoms made of? and how do we know that?
The elctron and the Atom
- every atom has at least one electron
- atoms are known that have one hundred or more electrons
- there is one elctron for each positive charge in an atom
- electrical neutrality us maintained
The plum-pudding Model
- J.J thomson proposed the atom as a positively charged spehere
- whithin the spehere are eletrons
- Plum-pudding or raisin-bread model
Protns and Neutrons- The nucleus
- 1911 Rutherford bombarded of gold foil with a particle (helium atom without electrons)
- Expected to see the particles pass through the foil
- Found that some of the aplha particles were deflected by the foil
- led to the discovery of a region of heavy mass at the center of the atom
Rutherdord’s model
- rutherford’s exoeriment revealed a small, dense core with positive charge
- electrons are outside this core
- most of the atom is empty space
Nuclear Particles
1) protons
- mass nearly eqaul to the H atom
- positive charge
2) Neutrons- Discovered by Chadwick in 1934
- mass slightly greater than that of the proton
- no charge
Mass and the atom
- more than 99% of the atomic mass is concentrated in the nucleus
Termininology
Atomic number, z
- number of protons in the atom
Mass number, A
- number of protons plus number of neutrons
- A is the mass number
- Z is the atomic number
- X is the chemical sysmbol
Examples
1) An isotope of cobalt(z+27) is used in radiation cancer therapy, it has 33 neutrons, what is its nuclear symbol?
Isotopes
- 2 atoms of the same element
- same atomic number
- different mass numbers
- number of neutrons is A minus Z
- number odf neutrons differs between isotopes
Isotopes of hydrogen
- 1H, 2h, 3h
- hydrogen, deuterium, tritium
- different masses
Atomic Masses: The carbon-12 scale
- Unit is the atomic mass unit (amu)
- Mass of one 12C atom= 12 amu (exactly)
- Note that 12C and C-12 mean the same thing
Determine Atomic Masses
- can be determined to highly
isotopic abundance
- determine hte mass of an element, we must know the mass
Mass Spectrum of CI
- the mass spectrum is a plot of abundance vs. mass
- the area under the peak in the mass spectogram gives the isotopic abundance