gen-chem 1st quart

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The emergence of chemistry as a discipline of science began with..

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Anglo-Irish philosopher ROBERT BOYLE

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Robert Boyle published this a discipline of science in 1661

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The Sceptical Chymist

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Robert Boyle defined it as the simplest composition of matter that cannot be broken down further by any chemical means

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element

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Robert Boyle suggested that atoms of elements combine to form different..

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compounds

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The interest on the concept of elements and compounds heightened when _______ isolated oxygen gas

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Joseph Priestley

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Priestly called oxygen gas as

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dephlogisticated air

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He formulated the “law of conservation of mass”

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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

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States that a chemical reaction, the mass of the substances produced is equal to the mass of the substances reacted

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Law of conservation of mass

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It is the foundation for stoichiometric calculations

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Law of conservation of mass

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Known as the father of modern chemistry

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Antoine Lavoisier

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He established the law of definite proportions

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Joseph-Louise Proust

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The law of definite proportions is also called as

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the law of definite composition

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States that any sample of a given compound will always be composed of the same elements in the same proportion by mass

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The law of definite proportions

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He proposed the law of multiple proportions

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John Dalton

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This fundamental law states that for elements that can form different compounds, the masses of the second element that can combine with a fixed mass of the first element are in a ratio of small whole numbers.

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The law of multiple proportions

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John Dalton proposed an atomic theory of matter that can explain chemical observations as predicted by the three fundamental laws

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A New System of Chemical Philosophy

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He discovered the “electron” while studying the nature of cathode rays

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Joseph John Thomson

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Cathode rays in an evacuated tube

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cathode ray tube (CRT)

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are deflected by a negatively charged plate and attracted by a positively charged plate as if the rays consisted of negatively charged particles

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cathode ray tube (CRT)

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A German physicist who discovered X-ray

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

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A French physicist who discovered radioactivity of uranium

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Henri Becquerel

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A British physicist who discovered and described the alpha and beta rays as positively and negatively charged radiations

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Ernest Rutherford

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Rutherford discovered the proton in

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1920

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Who discovered protons

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Rutherford

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Rutherford's co-researcher who discovered the other type of particle in the nucleus: [who & what]

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James Chadwick; Neutrons

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The nucleus at the center consists of protons and neutrons, collectively known as..

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Nucleons

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Represents the number of protons in its nucleus

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Atomic number

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Indicates the total number of protons and neutrons; it is an estimate of the element's atomic mass

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Mass number

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They have different mass numbers but the same atomic number; Follow the same configuration for elements

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Isotopes

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Principal fuels for nuclear reactors

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Uranium isotopes

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Naturally occurring uranium percentages are reffered to as

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Isotopic abundances

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when a neutral atom gains or loses one or more electrons, it becomes an electronically charged particle called..

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ion

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Metals tend to lose electrons and become positively charged..

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cations

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Nonmetals gain electrons and become negatively charged

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anions

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The number of electrons lost or gained is the..

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charge number

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an ion that consists of only one atom is referred to as a..

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monatomic ion

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different atoms can also combine and form

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polyatomic acid

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when atoms of nonmetals share electrons, they form an electrically neutral aggregate called..

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molecule

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What are the diatomic molecules

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I, Br, Cl, F, O, N, H

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nonmetallic elements exist in nature as..

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diatomic molecules

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Results from an attraction between a cation and an anion

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Ionic compound

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Setting the charge number of one ion as the subscript of the other ion

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Crisscross rule

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some ionic compounds have water molecules incorporated in their structure and are called

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hydrated salts

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Ionic compounds without their water molecules

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anhydrous

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Are compounds that can give off hydrogen ions when dissolved in water (aqeuous)

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acids

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results when nonmetals share electrons

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covalent compound

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naming most compounds of carbon

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organic compounds

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contains the symbol and the corresponding answer of atoms of all the elements in a compound

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molecular formula

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shows only the reduced form of a molecular formula

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empirical formula

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shows the bond pattern and connectivity of atoms in a compound

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structural formula

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simplifies the structural formula, in which bonding patterns and connectivity are less obvious but are still prettier

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condensed structural formula