How the concept of the atom evolved from Ancient Greek to the present Flashcards

1
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  • About 2,500 years ago, early Greek
    philosophers believed the entire
    universe was a
  • In other words, “everything was one”
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single, huge entity

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They believed that all objects, all
matter, and all substances were
connected as a _ “thing”

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single, unchangeable

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proponents of The Indivisible Atom

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  1. Democritus
  2. Leucippus
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Greek scholars who believed that matter could be divided into tiny particles until such point whereit can no longer be divided anymore.

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  1. Democritus
  2. Leucippus
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atoms, which
come from the Greek word

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ATOMOS

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atomos means

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uncuttable

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proponents of Arguments Against Atomism

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  1. Anaxagoras
  2. Empedocles
  3. Anaximenes
  4. Heraclitus
  5. Aristotle
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He propounded a physical theory of
“everything-in-everything,” and claimed that everything in the universe is composed of small, divisible particles

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Anaxagoras

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this is called _ (which translates to “mind” or “intellect” in Greek)

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nous

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He proposed that all universe was composed of matter in the four
fundamental elements: earth, water, air,
and fire. He believed that these elements combined and separated through the actions of two opposing forces he called “love” (philia) and “strife” (neikos)

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Empedocles

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philia is

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love

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neikos is

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strife

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He believed that air (a boundless, infinite substance that can be altered and transformed into various forms) is the fundamental substance from which all things in the universe originate and to which they ultimately return

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Anaximenes

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He believed that the primeval substance is fire and change is the only reality. He argued that permanence was an illusion and everything is in a state of constant flux

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Heraclitus

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He believed that everything in the
universe is made up of the four elements: air, fire, water, and earth. He stated that believing in atoms would mean putting restriction on the gods, who have the power to divide elements smaller than the atom.

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Aristotle

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air, fire,
water, and earth, are the primordial
substances. He called them _

16
Q

A set of five geometric shapes of solids
that are characterized by having equal
faces, equal angles, and equal edge
lengths

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Platonic Solids

17
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The word element came from the Greek word “στοιχεῖον” (stoicheion) which means smallest division. It was first used by _

18
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Air was

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wet and hot

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Fire was

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hot and dry

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Water was

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wet and cold

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Earth was

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dry and cold

22
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Aether was

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neither hot
nor cold and was neither
wet nor dry

23
Q

It was a speculative science with goals of finding the elixir of life and the
philosopher’s stone, which could
transform base metals into gold

24
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Isolation of metallic
zinc, invention of steel, and use of flame
to identify metals

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Indian Alchemists

25
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Creation of gold,
invention of gunpowder, creation of
poisons such as mercuric sulfide

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Chinese Alchemists

26
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Jabir Ibn Hayyan,
was the first to mention silver nitrate and red oxide of mercury in his works. His writings also described
laboratory techniques

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Islamic Alchemists

27
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Manufacturing of imitation gold and
silver.
Making dyes and artificial gemstones.
Fabricating pearls

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Egyptian Alchemy

28
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Paracelsus: believed that the organs of
the body worked alchemically. He
proposed that the three essentials (tria
prima) salt, mercury, and sulfur, should
be balanced to maintain health. He also
created laudanum, an opium tincture
used as a painkiller

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European Alchemy

29
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It was the first atomic model and
was developed by John Dalton in
1808 after experimenting with
mixture of gases

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Solid Sphere Model

30
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  • An atom that could
    not be divided into smaller particles
  • All atoms of one element are
    identical to each other but different
    from the atoms of another element
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Solid Sphere Model

31
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It was developed by Joseph
John Thomson in 1897 through
cathode rays experiment

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Plum Pudding Model

32
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Suggested that atoms were
composed of a positively charged
matrix with embedded electrons.

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Plum Pudding Model

33
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Thomson discovered the
_ (corpuscle) in 1904.

34
Q

It was developed by Ernest
Rutherford in 1911 through foil
and alpha particles experiment

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Nuclear Model

35
Q

Suggested that atoms had a
dense, positively
nucleus at their
small,
charged
center

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Nuclear Model

36
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Rutherford discovered the
_ in 1919

37
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  • It was developed by Niels Bohr
    in 1913.
    *Electrons orbited the nucleus at
    different distances and had
    different energies
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Planetary Model