The periodic Table Flashcards
What is an element?
A substance that contain only 1 type of atom
What is an atom?
The smallest part of an element. It behaves the same way as an element
What is a compound?
It is a subtance that contains 2 or more elements that are chemically joined/combined together.
What is a mixture?
A mixture are two or more different substances that are combined to each other but no chemically joined.
Maleable
It just bends (metal)
Brittle
It breaks (non metal)
Sonorus
When you hit it and it is empty and sounds
Name the 30 elements and symbols
All the elements and symbols
In the periodic table there are __ natural elements and ___ in total
92 matural elements and 118 in total
What are the characteristics of materials?
The characteristics of materials are called properties and compounds properties are very different to the properties of the elements in them remember the experiment of burning magnesium metal in oxygen or reacting sulfur and iron
What are the compound rules?
- 2 metals doesn’t compound together
- 2 non-metals can go togehter
- First part doesn’t change name
- Second part does change name
Scientists ___ see atoms so _____________
Scientists can’t see atoms so they use models to represent them
Common mixtures, compunds and elements
Mixtures:
- oli and water
- sat and sugar
- magnesium and sulfur
Compund:
- silicon dioxide
- potassium nitrate
- sodium hydroxide
Elements:
- zinc
- iron copper
Groups go
Down
Periods go
Across