Chapter 6: Relationships and Patterns in Chemistry Flashcards
who came up with the idea of conservation of mass?
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier
who said this: “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed”
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier
Johann Döbereiner realized he could organize certain elements into groups of _____ which he called ______
three called triads
Antoine Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois was the first to recognize the ________ of elements
periodicity
in what order did Chancourtois organize the elements?
by atomic weight
Julius Lothar Meyer published the periodic table based on the _______ of each element?
valency
John Newlands noticed that some trends were based of off which number? What was the name of this law?
8
law of octaves
Dimitry Mendeleev ordered the periodic table by _______?
molar mass
T or F: Mendeleev left empty spots in his table?
True, he predicted undiscovered elements that would take those places
def: arranging the elements by increasing aotmic mass produced an observable patter in which similar properties repeat on a regular basis, or periodically
periodic law
what were two problems with Mendeleev’s table?
- it didn’t predict the noble gases (they don’t react so it’s hard to discover them)
- it couldn’t locate hydrogen, as it fit in multiple places
who reordered the periodic table based on atomic number?
Henry Moseley
what are the elements 93-118 called?
the trans-uranium elements
def: horizontal rows on the periodic table, where atomic number increases by one and properties gradually change from one end to the other
periods
def: vertical columns on the periodic table, in which elements have similar properties, owing to the similarity of their electron configurations
groups (families)
def: groups 1 & 2 (s block) and 13-18 (p-block) on the periodic table, except hydrogen
main group elements
def: groups 3-12 on the periodic table, encompassing all the metals of the d and f blocks
transition metals
def: two rows of elements generally placed below the main table, comprising the metals of the f block
inner transition metals
def: elements Z = 57 through Z = 71, lanthanum through lutetium
lanthanides
def: elements Z = 89 through Z = 103, actinium through lawrencium
actinides
def: any of an atom’s electrons that can participate in bond formation with other atoms, whether ionically or covalently
valence electron
for transition metals, valence electrons are all those _______ the ________, regardless of their principal quantum number
outside the atom’s noble gas core
def: any of an atom’s electrons that isn’t a valence electron and that doesn’t participate in bond formation
core electron
def: the metallic elements of the periodic table that fall between the transition metals and the metalloids
post-transition metals
def: predictable and regular patterns of cyclical change in elemental properties throughout the periodic table, moving either vertically or horizontally
periodic trends
def: an expression of the size of an atom, representing the typical distance from the centre of it’s nucleus to the boundary of its electron cloud
atomic radius
why can’t we determine the precise size of an atom?
because the electron cloud does not have distinct boundaries
def: an estimate of the size of an atom, based on half the distance between covalently bonded atoms
covalent radius
def: an estimate of the size of a metal atom, based on half the distance between the nuclei and adjacent atoms in a metal lattice
metallic radius
what two factors influence the size of an atom’s electron cloud?
- how many energy shells contain electrons
- the amount, nature and separation of charge within the atom
as the principle quantum number goes up, the number of outermost shells _____ and they get _____ in distance to the nucleus
goes up and they get further away
what force are neutrons held together by?
residual strong force