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Mid Term 2017 Flashcards

1
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What is the summary of data and the results from an array of published articles?

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Textbook

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What is the study of separating, quantifying, and identifying matter?

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Analytical Chemistry

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3
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What is the creation of based metals into gold?

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Transmutation

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4
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What is the study of matter and change?

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Chemistry

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5
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What is the type of chemistry that is concerned with all carbon-containing compounds?

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Organic Chemistry

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What is the ancient form of chemistry?

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Alchemy

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What is a variable that is manipulated?

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Independent variable

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What is the logical progression of thought and actions taken in order to obtain an answer to a scientific question?

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The Scientific Method

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9
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What is - - if measurements are close to one another then they are???

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Precise

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10
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What is a variable that is measured?

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Dependent variable

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11
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What is a logical explanation to a question?

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Hypothesis

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12
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What is the term for when measurement are close to the accepted value?

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Accurate

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What is the term for any factors, traits, or conditions that can exist in different amounts or types?

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Variables

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What is the term for things that are kept the same in an experiment?

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Controlled variable

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15
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What is the term for the study of how biology functions on a chemical level?

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Biochemistry

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16
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What is the most basic type of scientific communication?

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Lab notebooks

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17
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What is an oral presentation of research given by graduate students?

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Dissertation

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18
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What is a positively charged particle in the nucleus of the atom?

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Proton

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19
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What is a negatively charged particle orbiting the nucleus?

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Electron

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20
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What is the term for electrons in the outermost she’ll of an atom?

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Valence electron

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21
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What states that every atom wants to have 8 electrons in its valence shell?

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Octet Rule

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22
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What is the term for atoms of the same element with different number of neutrons?

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Isotopes

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23
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What are the elements that express properties of metals and Nonmetals?

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Metalloids

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24
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What are the mostly radioactive families at the bottom of the periodic table?

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Lanthanides and Actinides

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What is the term for the neutrally charged particle in the nucleus of the atom?

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Neutron

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26
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What is the term for the elements in Group 7A on the periodic table?

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Halogens

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27
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What is the term for the horizontal row of the periodic table?

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Period

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28
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What is the term for the sum of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom?

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Atomic mass

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29
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Who put together the periodic table of the elements?

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District Mandeleev

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30
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What is the term for the end results of a chemical reaction?

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Products

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31
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What is the term for mixtures that have varying properties from sample to sample and do not appear uniform throughout?

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Heterogeneous mixture

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32
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What is another name for homogeneous mixture?

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Solution

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33
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What is the term for observed or measured by changing the chemical identity of a sample of matter?

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Chemical Property

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34
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In what state of matter are the atoms packed together - but not very tight - leaving room for flow?

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Liquid

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35
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What has mass and takes up space?

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Matter

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36
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What cannot be broken down by chemical means and can be found on the periodic table?

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Element

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37
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What is the term for the starting materials in a chemical reaction?

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Reactants

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38
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What is the term for matter4 that has a uniform composition?

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Substance

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39
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What is the term for something that can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the sample of matter?

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Physical property

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40
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What is the term for Group 1A on the periodic table - it is very reactive with water and oxygen?

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Alkali Metals

41
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What is the term for the vertical columns on the periodic table?

42
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What is the term for the elements that are conductive of electricity and hear, lustrous, ductile and malleable?

43
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What is the term for Group 8A elements - they do not react with any other atom?

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Noble gases

44
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What is the term for an atom that has lost one or more electron and has become positive?

45
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What is the element that in situations where it is desirable to recent another metal from reacting, this can be placed adjacent to that metal and it will read preferentially?

46
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Which element in the UK - points known as silver for their color were actually made from?

47
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Which element was discovered by German chemist Andreas Marggraf?

48
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Which element’s name came from the word for “copper devil”?

49
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What is the element that plays a key role in CFC’s, which are harming the ozone layer of the earth?

50
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What element is fairly reactive and over time, it reacts with everything it comes in contact with?

51
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Which element helps reverse a process called demineralization and helps stop tooth decay?

52
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What element is a gas that makes up 78% of the air we breathe?

53
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What is the term for the pint in which a substance goes from the liquid state to the solid state?

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Freezing Point

54
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What is the term for matter that does not have uniform compositions?

55
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What is the term for a change that does not cause a change in the chemical structure of the substance?

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Physical change

56
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What is the term for the ability of one substance to dissolved into a liquid?

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Solubility

57
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What is the term for the atoms of this state of mater that are far apart and are not packed together?

58
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What is the term for a substance that is composed of the atoms of two or more elements linked together chemically in certain fixed ratios?

59
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Which element was used as a chemical weapon in the First World War by German troops on the French soldiers?

60
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Which element - when in a compound with sulfur is better known as fool’s gold - because of its brassy yellow hue?

61
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Which element has an association with the color blue and is used as a pigment in painting and in the manufacture of porcelain and glass?

62
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Which element is an essential element that has a crucial function within the body which regulates oxygen transport in the blood?

63
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Which element is a catalyst in the composition of hydrogen peroxide to produce oxygen and a black-currant colored compound?

64
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Which element is a major component of table salt?

65
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Which element is useful for street lighting?

66
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Which element plays a key role in the controversial refrigerant, CFC’s and THM?

67
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Which element was referred to as brimstone in the Bible?

68
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Which element was named after the Greek term for lazy or idle?

69
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Which element is used as a preservative and bleaching agent?

70
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Which element is fractionally distilled from liquid air?

71
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Which element was discovered by Scottish Chemist Joseph Black and Humphry Davy?

72
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What element tends to react so strong that the soft, silvery, putty-like metal which can be cut with a knife is normally stored under oil to prevent even its reaction with air?

73
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Which element was found coating the enormous teeth through to be from the Megaladon?

74
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Which element if you have too little - serious health issues can result as cells find themselves unable to defend against disease?

75
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Which element is a nasty, corrosive, volatile element that can prove fatal to have in very small doses?

76
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Which element is found in plants that are eaten by livestock and the results, known in some places as the blind staggers can be quite the site to see?

77
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Which element uses are ver sillier to those of the other noble gases - that it is used in lighting applications and in places where inert atmospheres are required?

78
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Which element makes up sand?

79
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Which element is contained in ATP?

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Phosphorous

80
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Which element is used in the manufacture of food cans and plays a key role in the aerospace and aircraft industry?

81
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Which element did Frenchman Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discover in 1875 - - he found its properties were astonishingly similar to Mendeleev’s eka - Aluminum?

82
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Which element has a deadly reputation but also has a history of use as a medicine advertised to cure a plethora of ailments and diseases?

83
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Which element is named after Germany?

84
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What element was used early in dyes and paints particularly in yellows and greens?

85
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Which element was extracted from potash which is Aluminum in Latin?

86
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Which element has a role in transmitting nerve signals via its ionic conductivity and has an important job in regulation the pH of blood?

87
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Which element can be used as a useful alloy with aluminum?

88
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Which element is a component of hard water along with magnesium?

89
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Which element at an earlier time was names erythromium - - was derived from the Greek work for red, erythros?

90
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Which elements are used in the manufacturing of golf clubs?

91
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Which element may have uses in controlling blog sugar levels and improve insulin sensitivity in patients with diabetes?

92
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Which element was discovered twice?

93
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Which element was used to fill the Hindenburg blimp which ultimately lead to its demise?

94
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Which element is used in a component of anti-psychotic drugs?

95
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Which element is used to fill balloons??

96
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Which element is used to run batteries?

97
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Which element is an allotrope of diamond, charcoal and graphite?

98
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What is the main component of Borax?

99
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This element can cause shortness of breath, coughing, chest pain and skin problem if there is a long-term exposure to it?

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