Chemistry Flashcards
What particles are found in the nuclues of an atom?
Proton and neutrons
What is the negatively chraged particles of an atom?
Electron
What is the charge of an electron in charge unit?
1-
What is the charge of an electron in coulomb?
-1.602176462x10^-19
What is the unit for a charge of a particle?
Charge unit
What is the common unit used to indicate the mass of a particle?
Atomic mass unit (amu)
The discovery of radioactivity further confirms the existence of subatomic prticles. Who discovered radioactivity?
Henri Becquerel
How does Joseph John Thomson call his model of the atom?
Plum-pudding model
Who revised the atomic thery by replacing the hard, indestructible spheres imagined by Dalton and proposed the “raisin bread model”of the atom?
Joseph John Thomson
Who formulated the atomic theory?
John Dalton
“The masses of elements in a pure compound are always in the same proportion.” This statement is known as.
Law of definite proportion
“When two or more elements form more than one compound, the ratio of the masses of one element that combine with a given mass of another element in the different compounds is a ratio of small whole numbers.” This statement is known as:
Law of multiple proportion
Which of the following is NOT an extensive property of a material?
Length; Volume; Density; Weight
Density
Which of the following is NOT an intensive property of a material?
Color;Surface area;Melting point; Taste
Surface area
The properties of a material that do not change when the amount of substance changes is called _____ properties.
Intensive
The properties of a material that also change when the amount of subtance changes is called _______ properties.
Extensive
A material is said to be ________ if its composition and properties are not uniform throughout.
Heterogeneous
A material is said to be _________ if its composition and properties are uniform throughout.
Homogeneous
What is another term for “chemical change”?
Chemical reaction
What occurs when a substance changes in appearance without changing its compositions?
Physical change
What occurs when a substance is transformed into onther substance with a totally different composition and properties?
Chemical change
Table salt or sodium chloride may be formed by the reaction of:
Hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide
What acid is added to carbonated drinks to produce a tart test?
Phosphoric acid
Vinegar is a solution of water and what kind of acid?
Acetic acid
An acid can react with base to produce a
Salt
Which of the following is NOT a property of bases?
Fell slippery on the skin.; Turn litmus paper to blue.; taste bitter.; Dissolve metals producing various slats and hydrogen gas.
Dissolve metals producing various slats and hydrogen gas.
Which of the following is NOT a property of acids?
Taste sour.; Feel slippery on the skin.; Turn litmus paper to red.; Dissolve metals producing various salts and hydrogen gas.
Feel slippery on the skin
What are elements that have properties intermediate between metals and nonmetals?
Metalloids
Which of the following is NOT a property of metals?
Metals are neither malleable nor ductile; Metals have high thermal conductivity.; Metals have high electrical conductivity.; Metals have more luster
Metals are neither malleable nor ductile.
What is the property of metals that makes them reflect the light that strikes their surfaces, making them appear shiny?
Luster
What is the property that allows metal to be rolled without breaking?
Malleability
Compounds are mostly classified as:
Acids and Bases
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, Liquid and Gas
How are elements classified?
Metals, Nonmetals or metalloids
The particles of sugar dispered in water are so small that a clear homogeneous mixture is formed. What is this homogeneous mixture called?
Solution
A very fine particles of soil when mixed to water will form a cloudy mixture
Colloid
The mixture of soil and water is an example of what classificaton of a mixture?
Suspension
How are mixtures classified?
Suspension,Colloids or Solution
What is the result from the combination, in definte proportion of mass, of two or more elements?
Compound
What is a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances?
Element
How are substances classified?
Elements or Compounds
All forms of matter are composed of the same building blocks called?
Atoms
What is anything occupies space and has mass?
Matter
Who discovered the neutron?
James Chadwick
Who discovered the proton?
Ernest Ruther ford
Who was the fisrt person to propose that atoms have weights?
John dalton
The word “atom” comes from Greek “atomos” which means what?
Indivisible
What is the particle of an atom that has no electrical chrage?
Neutron
What is the positively chraged particle of an atom?
Proton
What is the charge of a proton in coulombs?
+1.602176462x10^-19
What is the chrage of a proton in charge unit?
1+
What is the mass of an electron in gram?
9.109387x10^-28
What is the mass of an electron in amu?
5.485799x10^-4
What is the mass of a proton in gram?
1.672623x10^-24
What is the mass of proton in amu?
1.0072765
What is the mass of a neutron in grams?
1.67495x10^-24
What is the mass of a neutron in amu?
1.00866
The protons and neutrons are not considered are fundamental particles because they consist of a smaller particles called
Quarks
The atomic number of an element is:
The number of protons in the nucleus
Atoms of the same element which have different masses are called
isotopes
What is an atom of specific isotopes called?
Ion
The number of _______ in an atom defines what element the atom is.
Protons
The number of ______ in an atom defines the isotopes of an elements.
Neutrons
If electrons are removed from or added to a neutral atom, a charged particle of the same element, called ______ is formed.
ion
A negativelu charged ion which results when an electron is added to an atom called
anion
A postively charged ion which results when an electron is removed from an atom is called
cation
What is “identity number” of an atom?
Atomic number
The ______ of an atom is the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.
mass number
“When the elements are arranged in the order of increasing atomic number elemnets with similar properties appear at periodic intervals.” This statement is known as
The periodic law
Who are the two chemists creadited for the discovery of the periodic law?
Juluis lother meyer and Demitri vanovich mendeleev
The elements with similar properties are placed in columns of the periodic table. These columns are common called
Groups or families
What are the rows in the periodic table called?
Periods
Elements in Group 1A in the periodic table are
Akali metals
Elements in Group IIA in the periodic table are
Alkaline earth metals
The boron group is what group in the periodic table?
GroupIIIA
What group in the periodic table is the carbon group?
Group IVA
What group in the periodic table is the nitrogen group?
Group VA
The chalcogens are elements in what group in the periodic table?
Group VIA
Halogens belong to what group in the periodic table?
Group VIIA
The elements, germanium and silicon, which are commonly used for semiconductors belongs what group of elements?
Carbon group
What group in the periodic table are the noble gases?
Group 0 or VIII A
Which of the following is NOT a noble gas?
Antimony
What is the atomic number for oxgen?
8
What is the atomic number of carbon?
6
Which alkaline earth metal has the smallest atomic number?
Beryllium
Which noble gas has the smallest atomic number?
Helium
What is the most abundant element in terms of the number of atoms?
Oxygen
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
Oxygen
What is the second most abundant element in the human body?
Carbon
Which of the following is NOT a metalloid?
Magnesium
Caustic soda is used in making soap, textiles and paper. What is another term for caustic soda?
Sodium hydroxide
What is used for the manufacture of explosives and fireworks?
Potassium perchlorate
All alkaline metals will tarnish in air except?
Beryllium
What is element is used as a coatin for iron to make galvanized iron a corrosion-resistant material?
Zinc
What element is used as electric power source for pacemakers and atrificial hearts?
Promethium
What element is commonly used in making lasers?
Neodymium
What is regarded as the most unique element in the periodic table?
Carbon
What is the most abundant element in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What is the only gas in Group VIA in the periodic table?
Oxygen
What is the second most abundant element in the atmosphere?
Oxygen
what element is used in advetising signs?
neon
What principle states about the fundamental limitation that, for a particle as small as the electron, one cannot know exactly where it is and at the same time know its energy or how it is moving?
Uncertainty principle
Who discovered the uncertainty principle?
Werner Karl heisenberg
what principle states that the electron full the orbitals, one at a time starting with the lowest orbital then proceeding to the one with higher energy?
Aufbau principle
What principle states that no two electrons in the same atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers?
Pauli exclusion principle
What describes how the electrons and distributed among the orbitals?
Electron configuration of an atom
The _________ of the atom describes the atom as having a cuvleus at the center around which electrons move?
Quantum mechanical model
What are the main energy levels where the valence electrons belong called?
Valence shells
The elements of groups IA,IIA,IIIA,IVA,VA,VIA.VIIA, and VIIIA are called main group elements or
Representatives
For the representative elements, the number of valence electrons is the same as the
The rightmost digit of the group number of the element
For transition elements, the number of valence electron is the same as
the group number
The size of the atom is dependent on which of the following:
The region of space occupied by its electrons
What happens to the atomic size of the elements in a group when you go from top to bottom of the grooup? It
increases
Who first predicted the bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in 1924?
Albert einstein
The ionzation energy is ________ to the atomic size of atom.
Inversely proportional
What refers to the measure of the atom’s tendency to attract an additional electron?
Electron affinity
The process of aining or losin an electron results to the formation of a charged atom or molecule called
ion
Aside from liquid,gas and solid, there are two other state of matter.
Plasma and Bose-einstein Condensate
Who fist identified plasma in 1879?
William crookes
Who coined the term plasma in 1928
Irving langmuir
What is made of gas atoms that have been cooled to near absolute zero at which temperature the atoms slow down, combine and forms a single entity known called a superatom?
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
The fifth state of matter, the BEC(Bose-Einstein condensate) was first created in what year?
1995
What is a high-energy,electrically charged gas produced by heatin the gas unit the electrons in the outer orbitals of the atoms separte, leaving the atoms with a positive charge?
Plasma
Water has bigger density when it is in what state?
Liquid
What is the temperature of water in solid state of 1 atm?
O degree celcuis
The density of water is the largest at what temperature?
4 degree celcuis
What element has a very high melting point and ideal for filaments of light bulbs?
Tungsten
Metals can be drawn into wires. This illustrates what property of metals
ductility
Steel is the widely used construction material because of its high tensile strength. It is a combination of what element?
Iron and carbon
What refers to the electro static attraction that holds together the oppositly charged ions, the carbons and anions, in the solid compound?
Ionic bond
What states that atoms tend to gain, lose or share electrons until they are surrounded by eight valence electrons?
Octet rule
What indicated the number of valence electrons to the atom represented by dots scattered on four sides of the atomic symbol?
Electron dot structure or lewis structure
What is formed by sharing of electrons between atom?
Covalent bond
What is the distance between the nuclei of two bonded atoms called?
Bond length
The overall shape of a molecule os described by which two properties?
Bond distance and bond angle
What is an angle made by the lines joining the nuclei of the atoms in the molecule?
Bond angle
“The best arrangement of a given number of shared and unshared electrons is the one hat mnimizes the repulsion among them”. This is known as
Valence-shell electron-pair repulsion theory
“A covalent bond is formed by the overlap of atomic orbitals.” This statement is the basic idea of which theory?
Valence bond theory
What refers to the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract shared electrons?
Electronegativity
What type of bond occurs when the difference in electronegativity is greater than or equal to 2?
Ionic
When can we say that a molecule is polar?
When the center of positive and negative charge do not coincide
Nobpolar covalent bond occurs if the difference in electronegativity ranges from:
.50 to 1.90
What is the sum of the masses of the atoms in the molecule of the substance called?
Molecular mass
What refers to the number of atoms in exactly 12 grmas of carbon-12?
Avogdro’s number
Which one is the avogadro’s number?
6.02x0^23
What is defined as the amount of substance that contains 6.02x10^23 particles of that substance?
Mole
What refers to the mass in grams of one mole of a substance?
Molar mass
What is the unit of molar mass?
Grams per mole
The total pressure of a mixture of gasses equals the sum of the partial pressures of each of the gasses in the mixture”.
This statement is known as
Dalton’s law of partial pressure
The dry air is composed of how many percent nitrogen?
78.1%
The dry air is composed of how many oxgen?
20.9%
How much carbon dioxide is present in dry air?
0.03%
What is the mixing of gases due to molecular motion called?
Diffusion
What refers to the passage of molecules of a gas from one container to another through a tiny opening between the containers?
Effusion
The rate of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molar mass. Who discovered this?
Thomas Graham
What law states that the rate of effusion of a gas, which is the amount of gas that through the hole in a given amount of time, is inversely proportional to the square root of its molar mass?
Graham’s law of effusion
What is a poisonous gas generated mostly by motor vehicles?
Carbon monoxide
What is considered as one of the pollutants responsible for smog and acid rain?
Nitrogen dioxide