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3 Ancient types of formation of elements
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, FUSION, NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTION
is the process that creates a new atomic nucleus.
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
it forms elements with an atomic mass that are within the range of lithium and iron.
FUSION
creates any element with an atomic mass higher than iron, which required a tremendous amount of energy to be formed.
NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTION
cannot be formed through fusions as tremendous amounts of energy are needed for the reaction to occur.
ELEMENTS HEAVIER THAN IRON
is the explosive death of a star or a massive explosion of a star.
SUPERNOVA
is the sum of protons and neutrons of a single atom.
Atomic mass
is the weighted average of the atomic mass of all natural isotopes of an element.
Atomic Weight
recorded the concept of the Atomos, an indivisible building block of matter, as early as the 5th century BCE.
Democritus and Leucippus
an English chemist and meteorologist is credited with the first modern atomic theory based on his experiments with atmospheric gases.
John Dalton
make up universe as they are continuously moving in a “void” that surrounds them, repelling each other when they collide, or combining into clusters.
Atoms
- completely solid which means that there is no void or empty space inside that will make them prone to disintegration or destruction.
- come in different shapes and sizes.
Atoms
the founder of the Academy in Athens (the first institution of higher learning in the Western world), first used the term Element.
Plato
Greek word for Element
stoicheion
Plato treated the four elements geometrically and named them
Platonic Solids.
Air
Octahedron (Wet and Hot)
Fire
Tetrahedron (Hot and Dry)
Water
Icosahedron (Wet and Cold)
Earth
Cube (Dry and Cold)
shape of the universe.
dodecahedrons
Every material in the world is made up of
elements
was the finest of all substances
aether (quintessence) (neither Wet nor Dry.)
proposed that all matter was composed of atoms, indivisible and indestructible building block
Dalton’s atomic theory
is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter.
Atom