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Recipe book of the Universe Flashcards

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Solar system definition

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Gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit around it

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Galaxy

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Huge collection of gas dust, billions of stars and their solar systems, held together by gravity

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Star

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Large, spherical celestial body consisting of a mass of gas that is hot enough to system nuclear fusion, thus producing radiant energy

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Nebulae

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Cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in night sky as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.

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Relate colours of stars to their age

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  • Younger stars: Blue, brighter, heavier, bigger, hotter
  • Older stars: Red, less bright, lightest, smaller, less hot
  • Older stars reduce the energy they emit as they run out of hydrogen
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Electron description

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  • Negative charge
  • Located in energy shells around nucleus
  • Responsible for reactivity
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Neutrons description

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  • Neutral charge
  • Located in nucleus
  • Holds together nucleus
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Protons description

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  • Positive charge
  • Located inside nucleus
  • Determines atom identity
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What does the atomic number represent?

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Amount of protons

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What is the chemical symbol?

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The shortened version of an element’s name

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What is the atomic mass?

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Approximately equivalent to number of protons and neutrons in an atom

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Group meaning

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How many electrons are on the valence shell of an atom, displayed vertically on the periodic table

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Period meaning

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Number of electron shells an atom has, displayed horizontally on the periodic table

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General properties of elements on left side of periodic table (group 1 and 2)

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  • Low melting points
  • Highly reactive
  • Malleable, solid metals
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General properties of elements on right side of periodic table (group 7 and 8)

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  • Low boiling points
  • Highly reactive (except noble gases)
  • Non-metals
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Features of Alkali metals (Group 1)

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  • High thermal and electrical conductivity
  • Shiny lustre
  • Ductile, malleable, soft
  • Low melting and boiling points
  • Very high reactivity
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Features of Alkaline earth metals (Group 2)

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  • good electrical conductivity
  • shiny lustre
  • low density, melting, and boiling points
  • somewhat reactive
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Features of Halogens (Group 7)

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  • low melting and boiling points
  • fairly toxic
  • includes gases, liquids, and solids
  • salt producing
  • highly reactive
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Features of Noble gases (Group 8)

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  • non-flammable
  • colourless, odourless
  • gases at room temp
  • low boiling temps
  • non-reactive/stable
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Johann Dobereiner’s periodic table design (1817)

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  • Organised elements intro triads based on chemical properties
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John Newlands’ periodic table design (1864)

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  • Arranged elements in increasing order of atomic mass
  • Law of octaves: found that every 8 elements had similar chemical properties
  • Arranged elements in 8 groups
  • Didn’t leave room for undiscovered elements
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Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table design (1869)

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  • Wrote symbols for the chemical elements
  • Put them in order in increasing atomic mass
  • Left gaps in table for undiscovered elements
  • Correctly predicted properties of the missing elements
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Henry Moseley’s periodic table design (1931)

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  • Arranged elements according to atomic numbers
  • Indicated identity of an element is how many protons it has
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Democritus atomic theory (460 BC)

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  • First formation of atomic theory
  • Smallest possible bit of matter
  • Indivisible particle everything made up of
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John Dalton atomic theory (1800)

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5 atom laws:
- Everything made of atoms: indivisible building blocks of matter which cannot be destroyed
- All atoms of an element are identical
- Atoms of different elements vary in size and mass
- Compounds produced through different whole-number combinations of atoms
- Chemical reactions result in the rearrangement of atoms in reactant and product

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JJ Thompson atomic theory (1897)

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  • Plum pudding model
  • Discovered electrons/negatively charged particles
  • Cathode ray experiment
  • passing electric current through cathode ray tubes
  • discovered cathode rays were beams of negatively charged particles because ray bent towards positively charged plate
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Ernest Rutherford atomic theory (1911)

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  • discovered nucleus (tiny, dense, positively charged core)
  • discovered most of atom was empty space
  • fired alpha particles at thin sheets of gold foil
  • some particles deflected wildly in one direction or another
  • he thought they would pass straight through
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Neil’s Bohr Atomic theory (1913)

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  • Proposed stable electron orbits, explained the emission of spectra at some elements.

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