Lesson 1 Flashcards
It is the science of the 21st Century
Chemistry
Chemistry is often called
The “Central Science”
Chemistry, from the Greek word khēmeia meaning?
“cast together” or “pour together”
Considered to be the “father of modern science”
Democritus
(460 BC - 370 BC)
The smallest unit of matter which still retains the identity and properties of that matter
Atom
He rejected Democritus
Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)
Aristotle believed in four elements, which is?
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
He studied anatomy, astronomy, embryology, geography, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology
Aristotle
Alexander the Great had conquered Egypt in?
332 BC
The word Alchemy came from the word Khemia, which means?
Egypt
It covers several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents
Alchemy (PART 1)
(300 BC - 500 BC)
Antoine Lavoisier
(1743 - 1794)
Father of Modern Chemistry because he relied on quantitative observation to develop conclusions.
Antoine Lavoisier
(1743 - 1794)
Antoine Lavoisier discovered the law of?
Law of Conservation of Mass
He discovered that electrical charges come in 2 varieties - positive and negative. Like charges repel, opposite charges attract.
Benjamin Franklin
(1752)
The Law of Definite Proportions was introduced by?
Joseph Louis Proust
(1754)
Father of Atomic Theory
John Dalton
(1766 - 1844)
He discovered radioactivity in Uranium ore.
Henri Becquerel
(1903)
They discovered and isolated polonium and radium from uranium ores.
Marie and Pierre curie
(1903)
He calculated the mass and charge of an electron. He was an Americal experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
(1910)
He discovered the neutron and he won the nobel prize in 1935
James Chadwick
(1935)
It is the study of the substances, specially their structure, properties, transformations and the energy changes accompanying these transformation.
Chemistry