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DAY 1 PEEPS Flashcards

1
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Law of Octaves

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John Newlands

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2
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arrange elements by their atomic masses (independent of dmitri mendeleev)

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Lothar Meyer

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3
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CFCs

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Sherwood Roland, Mario Molina

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4
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Transuranium elements (Plutonium to Lawrecium)

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Glenn Seaborg

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5
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coined ‘radioactivity’

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Marie Curie

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6
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discovered Polonium

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Marie Curie

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7
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Discovered radium

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Marie Curie

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8
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Nox

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Paul Crutzen

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9
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Father of Nuclear Chemistry, Godfather of nuclear fission

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Otto Hahn

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10
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discovered nuclear transmutation

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Ernest Rutherford

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11
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proved photoelectric effect; charge and mass of electron

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Robert Millikan

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12
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Theorized photoelectric effect

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Albert Einstein

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13
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discovered electron using cathode-ray tube

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JJ Thomson

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14
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discovered proton; geiger-marsden experiment, transmutation

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Ernest Rutherford

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15
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discovered ‘electron’

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James Chadwick

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16
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coined ‘electron’

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George Stoney

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17
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Performed Cathode-ray tube experiment

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Sir William Crookes; Heinrich Geissler

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18
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ratio of electric charge to mass of electron

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JJ Thomson

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19
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discovered x-rays

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Willhelm Konrad Roentgen

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20
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‘radioactivity’ in Uranium

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Antoine Henri Bequerel

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21
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relationship between elements’ atomic number and frequency of xrays generated by bombarding element with high energy electrons

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Henry Mosely

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22
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synthesized urea from inorganic ammonium cyanate

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Friedrich Wohler

23
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coined ‘isomers’

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Jans Jacob Berzelius

24
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reacted carbon sulfide (inorganic) to produce acetic acid (organic)

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Adolph Wilhelm Herman Kolbe

25
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structure of benzene

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August Kekule

26
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Octet rule and lewis structure

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Gilbert Lewis

27
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reaction behavior is due to movement of e-

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Robert Robinson

28
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concept of resonance (hybridization); electronegativity; explained the geometry (H2O, NH3, CH4)

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Linus Pauling

29
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chair conformation cyclohexane

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Odd Hassel

30
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discovered free radical addition of Hbrto alkenes; peroxide effect (Anti-markov)

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Morris Kharasch

31
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Hydroboration-oxidation reaction (discovered)

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Herbert Brown

32
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electron group geometries

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Ryutaro Tsuchida

33
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VSEPR Theory

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Ronald Nyholm and Ronald Gillespie

34
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radiocarbon (C-14) dating

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Willard Libby

35
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distribution of molecular speeds

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James Clark Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann

36
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Phenolphthalein

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Adolf von Baeyer

37
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first mass spectrophotometer; isotopes Neon 20 and Neon 22

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F.W. Aston

38
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Father of Environmental Chemistry

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Werner Stumm

39
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3rd Law of Thermodynamics

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Walther Nernst

40
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Photosynthesis

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Melvin Calvin

41
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procedure for detecting arsenic (As2O3)

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James Marsh

42
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Law of conservation of mass

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Antoine Lavoisier

43
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Law of definite composition

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Joseph Louis Proust

44
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Law of Multiple proportions

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John Dalton

45
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e- are revolving around nucleus

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Neils Bohr

46
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Quantum Theory; energy is like matter is discontinous

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Max Planck

47
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waves can behave like particles and particles can exhibit wave-like properties

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Louis de Broglie

48
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entropy (discovered); explained its behavior

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Rudolf Clausius

49
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synthesized first synthetic transmutated atom (1st artificially created radioactive atom)

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Irene Joliot Curie

50
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discovered Deuterium

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Harold C. Urey

51
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Coined serendipity

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Horace Walpole

52
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discovered vulcanization

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Charles goodyear

53
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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

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created the first spectroscope

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