Stage 3 Flashcards
Neutron
Neutral subatomic particle int he nucleus of an atom.
Proton
Positively charged subatomic particle inside the nucleus of an atom.
Electron
Negatively charged subatomic particle that is floating around the nucleus in the electron cloud. It is the smallest type of subatomic particles and they are part of chemical reactions.
Atomic number
Number of protons (or electrons Ina neutral atom) in an atom.
Atomic mass
The average of the weights of all the natural occurring isotopes of an element.
Mass number
Sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus.
Electron configuration
Shows the arrangements of e- in an atom
Atomic theories
Democritus, dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, Schrödinger.
Atoms
Basic unit of all matter that contains the properties of an element.
Radioactivity
Release of energy by the atoms. Propriety.
Types of radiation
Alpha, beta and gamma
Example of radioactive elements
Plutonium (239), cobalt (60) and strontium (90)
S block
Groups 1A & 2A ink using including hydrogen and helium.
P block
3A - 8A! Excluding helium.
D block
Transition metals
F block
Inner transition metals (lanthanides and actinides)
Groups or families
Columns
Periods
Rows
Ionization energy periodic trend
It increases as you go up in a family and right in a period.
Electronegativity periodic trend
It increases as you go up in a family and right in a period.
Element with the highest electronegativity
Fluorine
Elements that have a high ionization energy but no electronegativity
Noble gases
Periodic trend in atom in radius
It increases as you go down in a family and left in a period.
Greek philosophers thought that matter …
Was made from four elects (air, water, fire and earth) and could be endlessly divided.
Democritus
Matter is made from tiny individual particle that cannot be created destroyer nor divided.
Main contributions of John Dalton
He was the first one to sustain the fact that everything is made out of worms, he said that atoms of difference elements had different weights, that everything was made up of atoms and that toms were the smallest indivisible particle.
Principle of Dalton’s model
- Everything is made out of atoms. They are indivisible and indestructible.
- Atoms cannot be created nor destroyed.
- atoms of the same element have the same size, chemical properties and mass. They are different from atoms of other elements.
- Atoms of different elements combine to form compounds.
Dalton was wrong because …
He didn’t include the subatomic particles and because isotopes of the same element have different masses.
Laws used by dalton
Law of conservation of mass
Law of constant competition/ definite properties
Law of multiple proportions
Law of conservation of mass
Mass cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed
Thomson’s model
Plum pudding model
Main contribution of Thomson
Addition of electrons to the atomic model.
Thomson’s experiment
Used a cathode-ray tube (electron gun) to create negative ways made from negative particles that were deflected by a positive wave between magnets.
Description of Thomson’s model
Negative charged particles (plums) swimming in a sea of positive charge (pudding)
Thomson was wrong because …
He didn’t mention the nucleus.
Rutherford’s main contribution
The inclusion of the positively charged nucleus by a bunch of negatively charges particles.
Rutherford’s experiment
Gold foil experiment. He fire we alpha particles at a foil expecting them to be rejected.