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1
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In a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed.

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Law of Conservation of mass

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All samples of a given compound, regardless of their source or how they were prepared, have the same proportions of their constituent elements.

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Law of Definite Proportions

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When two elements (call them A and B) form two different compounds, the masses of element B that combine with 1 g of element A can be expressed as a ration of small whole numbers.

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Law of Multiple Proportions

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The electrode in an electrochemical cell where reduction occurs; electrons flow toward the cathode.

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Cathode Ray tube

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A stream of electrons produced when a high electrical voltage is applied between two electrodes within a partially evacuated tube.

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Cathode Rays

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Fundamental property of some of the particles that compose atoms and results attractive and repulsive forces.

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Electrical charge

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a negatively charged, low mass particle present within all atoms

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Electron

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Who is known for discovering the electron?

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J.J. Thomson

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The emission of small energetic particles from the corse of certain unstable atoms

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Radioactivity

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Who is known for discovering radioactivity?

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Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie

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Who conducted the gold foil experiment?

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Rutherford

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Who proposed the nuclear theory?

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Rutherford

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Most of the atom’s mass and all of its positive charge are contained in a small core

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Nucleus

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What is the positive charge of the atom?

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Protons

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Neutral particles within the nucleus

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Neutrons

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The number of protons in the atoms nucleus. The Z number

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Atomic number

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Each element, identified by its unique atomic number, is represented with a

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Chemical symbol

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Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are called

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Isotopes

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The relative mount of each different isotope in a naturally occurring sample of a given element is roughly constant.

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Natural abundance

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The sum of the number of neutrons and protons in an atom. The A number.

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Mass number

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Positively charged ions

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Cations

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Negatively charged ions

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Anions

23
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When the elements are arranged in order of increasing mass, certain sets of properties recur periodically.

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Periodic law

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Large class of elements that are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, malleable, ductile, lustrous, and tend to lose electrons during chemical changes.

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Metals

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A class of elements that tend to be poor conductors of heat and electricity and usually gain electrons during chemical reactions.

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Nonmetals

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A category of elements found on the boundary between the metals and non metals of the periodic table, with properties intermediate between those of both groups; also called semimetals

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Metalloids

27
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A material with intermediate electrical conductivity that can be changes and controlled.

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Semiconductor

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Those elements found in the s or p blocks of the periodic table, whose properties tend to be predictable based on their position in the table.

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Main-group elements

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Those elements found in the d block of the periodic table whose properties tend to be less predictable based simply on their position in the table.

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Transition elements (transition metals)

30
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Columns within the main group elements in the periodic table that contain elements that exhibit similar chemical properties.

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Family (group)

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The group of 8A elements, which are largely un-reactive due to their stable filled p orbitals.

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Noble gases

32
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Highly reactive metals in group 1A of the periodic table.

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Alkali metals

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Fairly reactive metals in group 2A of the periodic table.

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Alkaline earth metals

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Highly reactive nonmetals in group 7A of the periodic table

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Halogens

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The average mass in amu of the atoms of a particular element based on the relative abundance of the various isotopes; it is numerically equivalent to the mass in grams of one mole of the element.

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Atomic mass

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An experimental method of determining the precise mass and relative abundance of isotopes in a given sample using an instrument called a mass spectrometer.

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Mass spectrometry

37
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A unit defined as the amount of material containing 6.0221421 X 10^23.

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Mole

38
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An elements molar mass in grams per mole is numerically equal to the element’s atomic amass in atomic mass units.

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Molar mass

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