Reading 1.1-1.6 Flashcards
viewed at the particle level, graphene consists of
sheets of carbon atoms bonded together
When was graphene discovered
recently, but carbon networks like those in its structure have existed in nature for billions of years
Modern scientists can characterize the properties of graphene because they
understand the carbon–carbon bonds that form its structure
silicon wafers are widely used to make
computer chips and photovoltaic cells for solar panels
Since the 1980s, scientists have been able to image individual atoms by using an instrument called a
scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
atomism
- a belief that all forms of matter are composed of extremely tiny, indestructible building blocks called atoms
- spoused by Greece philopshers
Atomism is an example of a ____. It is not a _____
natural philosophy, scientific theory
The difference between the two is that although both seek to ____, scientific theories do so through…
- explain natural phenomena
- scientific theories do so through concise, testable explanations based on observation and experimentation
published the first modern chem textbook in 1789. What did this book contain?
- French chemist Antoine Lavoisier
- a list of substances that he believed could not be seperated into simpler substances (which today we call elements)
a concise and generally applicable statement of a fundamental scientific principle
scientific laws
When French chemist Joseph Louis Proust studied the composition of compounds containing different metals and oxygen, he concluded…
that those compounds contained the same proportions of their compound elements always
law of definite proportions
the principle that a compound always contains the same proportion of its component elements
law of constant composition
the principle that all samples of a given compound have the same elemental composition by mass no matter what its source
t/f the composition of water is always the same
true 11.2% by mass hydrogen and 88.6% by mass oxygen
two principal categories of matter
pure substance and mixtures
Scientific laws and theories complement each other in that scientific laws describe ____ and _____. and scientific theories explain…
- natural phenomena and relationships
- why those relationships are always observed
t/f Scientific theories usually start out as tentative explanations of why a set of experimental results was obtained or why a particular phenomenon is consistently observed. Such a tentative explanation is called a hypothesis.
t
proposed a scientific theory explaining Proust’s law of definite proportions
John Dalton
-observed that when two elements react to form gaseous compounds they may form two or more compounds with dif compositions. Dalton’s findings with gasous compounds agreed with findings from Proust’s experiments with solid compounds
Dalton realized that the ratio of oxygen to tin in the second compound was
very close to twice what it was in the first compound
To explain the laws of definite proportions and multiple proportions, Dalton proposed the scientific theory that
elements are composed of atoms
COAST acronym mean
C collect O organize A analyze S solve T think about it
pure substances
the simplest forms of matter - elements and compounds (cannot be seprated into simpler substances by any physical process
physical process
a transformation of a sample of matter such as a change in its physical state that does not alter the chemical identity of any substance in the sample
-also called physical change
Pure substances have ___ properties
distinctive