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What is a group?

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Vertical column in the periodic table. Elements in a group have similar properties

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What is diffusion?

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Movement of particles from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.

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What is a period?

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A period is a horizontal row in the periodic table.

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What does property mean? e.g. What’s the property of a metal?

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the property of something is what they all have as a group. (Characteristics of a substance) E.g. Metals are shiny, conduct electricity and hard.

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What is an element?

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An item with only one type of atom.

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What is a compound?

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A substance that is made of 2 or more different types of atoms joined together.

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What is a mixture?

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A mixture is a mixture of elements and/or compounds in any ratio. The properties of separate elements stay with them.

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What is Thermal Decomposition?

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The breaking down of a substance into simpler substances using heat.
e.g copper carbonate –> copper oxide + carbon dioxide.

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What is limewater used for?

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Test for Carbon Dioxide, if it’s present, it goes cloudy/milky.

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What is Electrolysis?

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The decomposition of a compound into simpler substances using electricity.

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What is an Anode?

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The positive electrode

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What is a cathode?

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The negative electrode

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What is an electrolyte

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The solution containing ions to be electrolysed

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What is an ion?

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A charged particle e.g. H+ or Cl-

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What is an isotope?

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An isotope is an element with the same number of protons BUT a different number of neutrons

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Describe electron arrangement

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The electrons are arranged in energy levels, ‘shells’. They can hold 2 or 8 electrons per shell, it goes in the formation 2,8,8,2

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What is the Atomic mass?

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Sum of neutrons and protons

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What is the atomic number?

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The number of protons

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What is the nucleus?

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The centre of the atom, it holds protons and neutrons

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What is a proton?

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A positively charged particle in the nucleus with a mass of ‘1’.

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What is an electron?

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A negatively charged particle found around the nucleus in shells.

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What is a neutron?

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A particle found in the nucleus with no charge and a mass of ‘1’. Can be calculated by subtracting the atomic number from the atomic mass.

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What is combustion?

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Combustion occurs when a substance reacts with oxygen releasing energy mainly in the form of light and heat.

  • Combustion is an oxidation reaction
  • the substance burnt gains oxygen and gets heavier
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What is Corrosion?

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The process which a metal reacts with oxygen in the air to form a solid on a surface.

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What is rusting?

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Corrosion of iron or steel

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What is Rust?

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Hydrated Iron Oxide

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What is sacrificial protection?

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Attaching a more reactive metal to iron or steel, which corrodes instead of that

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What is galvanising?

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Protecting the iron by dipping it in molten zinc. This is known as a double protection as it’s sacrificial protection and a physical barrier.

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What is oxidation?

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When a substance gains oxygen. e.g. Iron going rusty

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What is reduction?

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When a substance loses oxygen

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