Matter Flashcards
What is an element?
Only made up of one type of atom.
What is the periodic table?
A table used to identify and learn the elements.
What is a polymer?
A long chain of molecules.
On what side of the periodic table are the noble gases?
On the very right.
On what side are the metals on the periodic table?
In the centre and left. In the centre there are also the Transition Elements.
What is the link between Technetium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium, Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium, Nihonium, Flerovium, Moscovium, Livermorium, Promethium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, Berkelium, Californium, Einsteinium, Mendelevium, Nobelium and Lawrencium?
They are all artificially prepared.
What is the difference between a compound and a mixture?
A compound is chemically joined and a mixture is not chemically joined.
What is a period?
The horizontal rows on the periodic table.
What is a group?
A group is the vertical columns on the periodic table.
What is a halogen?
Group 7 elements.
What group are Li, Na and Rb in?
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