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1
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Elements are _____ and made up of ____ type of atom

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unique

one

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2
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How many known elements are there?

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118

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What explains the differences in the physical properties of matter?

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elements can have different numbers of protons and electrons

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Elements can exist in different _____

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states

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Who invented the periodic table?

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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What does atomic number mean? What does it define?

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the number of protons in the element

defines which element it is

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What are the 3 major categories of elements based on properties?

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Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals

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What is atomic mass?

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the average mass of a typical atom of a specific element (weighted for most common mass)

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What is a row on the periodic table? What property do all elements in the same row have?

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A period (all elements have the same # of electron shells)

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What is a column on the periodic table? What property do all elements in the same column have?

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A group/family (all elements have the same number of valence electrons)

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Elements on the periodic table are arranged left to right by ______

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increasing atomic number

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What is a neutral atom?

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An atom where the number of protons is the same as the number of neutrons

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An atomic number tells you what about a neutral atom?

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Both the number of protons and the number of electrons

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How do you find the number of neutrons in the most common isotope with the atomic mass number and atomic number? Why does this work?

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Subtract the atomic number from the (rounded to the nearest whole number) atomic mass number.
The atomic mass number is equal to the number of protons + the number of neutrons

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What is an isotope? What is special about an isotope?

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An atom of an element that has a different number of neutrons.
The number of protons is the same but the atomic mass number changes because more or less neutrons changes the mass

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What is a mass number for an isotope?

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The mass for an isotope of an element based on the number of protons and the number of neutrons added together.

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17
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What are the three isotopes of hydrogen? What makes them all different?

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Protium (which has no neutrons), Deuterium (which has 1 neutron), and Tritium (which has 2 neutrons)

Remember that the name correlates with the mass number for these - deu=2 and tri=3, and you can figure out pro from context

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18
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What is an atom with a charge called?

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An ion

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What is a negatively charged ion called?

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An anion

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What is a positively charged ion called?

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A cation

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21
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What are the rules for ion attraction? (2)

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Like repels like

opposites attract

22
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What are some properties of metals? (6)

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  • solid at room temp except for mercury
  • ductile (can be pulled into thin wires)
  • lustrous
  • good conductors heat and electricity
  • malleable (can be hammered into thin sheets)
  • prone to lose electrons easily
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What are some properties of nonmetals? (5)

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  • brittle
  • dull/not shiny
  • poor conductors of heat and electricity
  • solid, liquid, or gas at room temp
  • gain or share electrons easily
24
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What are some properties of metalloids? (4)

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  • nonmetallic chemical properties and metallic physical properties
  • conductivity depends
  • dull or shiny
  • solid at room temp
25
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What are valence electrons? What do they determine?

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The electrons in the outermost shell of the atom.

Determine how an element reacts

26
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typically, most elements but hydrogen and helium want to have ___ valence electrons

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8

27
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What are the 5 major groups in the periodic table?

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Alkali metals, Alkaline Earth metals, Transition metals, Halogens, Noble Gases

28
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What are some properties of alkali metals? (4)

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  • 1 valence electron
  • soft, shiny, metallic solid
  • good conductors
  • low densities and low melting points
29
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What are some properties of alkaline earth metals? (3)

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  • 2 valence electron
  • metallic solids, harder than alkali metal
  • more dense, have higher melting point, better at conducting than alkali metals
30
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What are some properties of transition metals? (3)

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  • hard metallic solids
  • very good conductors w/ high melting points
  • shiny, dense, lustrous
31
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What are some properties of halogens? (3)

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  • 7 valence electrons
  • reactive nonmetal
  • melting and boiling points increase as atomic # increases
32
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What are some properties of noble gases? (2)

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  • 8 valence electrons

- dont react often

33
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What are the Actinides?

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  • mostly man made elements (except uranium and plutonium)

- 89-103

34
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What are the Lanthanides?

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  • rare earth metals
  • properties all similar to first element, lanthanide
  • 57-71
35
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What is effective nuclear charge?

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The total positive charge that an electron feels in an atom that has multiple electrons

36
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Why does effective nuclear charge matter?

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In an electron with more than one electron, positive charge is distributed among the electrons. The full positive pull is not felt by one electron.

37
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Electrons in ______ (which are _____) don’t get as much positive pull as electrons in _______ (which are ____)

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higher energy levels
farther away from the nucleus
lower energy levels
closer to the nucleus

38
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What is the shielding effect?

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The balance of an electron’s attraction towards the positive nucleus and repelling from the other negative electrons in lower energy levels

39
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What is the atomic radius? What is its periodic trend? Why does it follow said periodic trend?

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The distance from the center of the nucleus to the outermost electron.
right to left increase, top to bottom increase
(ex: ognesson has the highest atomic radius)
because effective nuclear charge increases as electrons are added, because there are more electrons in energy levels (respectively)

40
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What is ionic radius? What is its periodic trend?

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The distance between the centers of two ions that barely touch
increases for nonmetals moving left to right across a row, increases for metals moving right to left across a row

41
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What is ionization energy? What is its periodic trend?

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Ionization energy is the amount of energy/how much energy is needed to remove an electron from an atom.
increases bottom to top
increases left to right

42
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What is electronegativity? What is its periodic trend?

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Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to react.
Increases bottom to top
increases left to right
excludes the noble gases

43
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What are the reactivity trends for metals?

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increasing top to bottom

increasing right to left

44
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What are the reactivity trends for nonmetals?

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increasing bottom to top

increases left to right

45
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What are energy levels?

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Orbits for electrons around the nucleus

46
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What does the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle state?

A

it’s impossible to know both how fast a particle is going and where it is at the same time

47
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What does the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle disprove? What is there instead?

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The theory of structured orbits/circular paths around the nucleus for electrons.
Instead “orbits” are general areas of space where the electron can be located, rather than well defined paths

48
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What is Shrodinger’s equation the basis for?

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Quantum mechanics, or the science of the interaction of atoms and subatomic particles (electrons, neutrons, protons, etc)

49
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What’s some important things to know about Schrodinger’s equation?

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  • included both wave and particle behavior
  • say that the probability of finding an electron in a specific place is proportional to the square of the wave function
  • most likely to find a photon where the intensity of light is the highest
50
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What does Schrodinger’s equation tell you?

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tells you the PROBABILITY of where the electron is at any given time
(NOT where it is)

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