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UNIT 1: Background of Atoms Flashcards

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What is the Atomic Hypothesis?

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All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another

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What about the name Atomic Hypothesis raised questions?

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The fact that people didn’t know if it was fact, or if it was only a hypothesis

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What is relativism?

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The doctrine that knowledge, truth, and mortality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute

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What does epistemological mean?

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relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.

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What is a chemical element?

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A chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances

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What is a corpuscular?

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A minute particle regarded as the basic constituent of matter or light

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What did Democritus and Leucippus introduce? (think material world)

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The idea that the material world is made from very tiny particles, which themselves cannot be any farther separated into smaller parts.

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What is atomism?

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A theoretical approach that regards something as interpretable through analysis into distinct, separable, and independent elementary components.

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What does Atomism leave no place for, and how does it tie back to epistemology?

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It left no place for spiritual values which ties back to the epistemological reasoning behind why the atomic hypothesis was questioned.

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What were the five elements that Aristotle believed in instead of atoms?

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Water, fire, earth, air, and ether.

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What is ether?

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Ether filled the space between the celestial bodies (space)

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Why is the burning of incense relevant to the contradictions of the atom?

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It was hard for people to comprehend that if a small bit of incense was burned the initial piece could be divided so many times to fill the room

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Who is supposed to be the first scholar to establish an atomic concept?

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John Dalton

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What does quantitative mean?

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Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity rather than its qualities

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What are simple substances?

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Elements that cannot be decomposed any further

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What is the Law of Constant Compound?

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Most compounds are the result of the reaction of specific ratios of masses of the elements that form this compound

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Can chemical reactions form different compounds through a combination of the same element?

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Yes

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If a different compound was made from a combination of same elements what does the resulting compound depend on?

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the amount of the two initial substances that reacted with each other

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What is the Law of Multiple Proportions?

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if two elements possibly react to more than one compound, then the mass of element A reacting with the same amount of B are small integer multiples

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What does stoichiometric mean?

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relating to or denoting quantities of reactants in simple integral ratios, as prescribed by an equation or formula

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What does empiric mean?

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relies solely on observation and experiment.

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What is the Modern Atomic Theory of Matter?

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  • all matter is composed of atoms
  • atoms cannot be made or destroyed
  • all atoms of the same element are identical
  • different elements have different types of atoms
  • chemical reactions occur when atoms are rearranged
  • compounds are formed from atoms of the constituent elements
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What is the Law of Constant Composition?

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all atoms of the same element are identical, and that chemical reactions are a result of the rearrangement of the atoms.

24
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What is the Law of Multiple Proportions?

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the result of different arrangements of the atom results in different compounds.

25
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What is paradigm?

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A typical example or pattern of something; a model

26
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What does Kuhn mean?

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Kuhn was a scientist who believed that scientific practice alternates between periods of normal science and revolutionary science.

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What was a key problem with Dalton’s theories? (Dalton’s quantitative atom theories and ideas)

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The assumption that each element had its own atom was difficult for some to believe.

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What does Heuristic mean?

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Proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are loosely defined.

29
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What branch of physics played an important role in the establishment of a physical atom?

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thermodynamics

30
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What is Planck’s theory of radiation?

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different atoms and molecules can emit or absorb energy in discrete quantities only

31
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What is Brownian motion?

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the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid resulting from their collision with the fast moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid

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How was Brownian motion discovered?

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Robert Brown noticed that small pollen and dust particles that are floating on water moved in an erratic manner, never appearing to stop even though the particles were not alive.

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What is the reason particles move randomly (Brownian Motion)?

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It is due to the particles kinetic energy.

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How does Brownian Motion play into the atom?

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It was the first macroscopic effect that had to be explained with the assumption of small particles and thus formed empirical evidence for the kinetic theory and thus the atomic theory.

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What is substructure?

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an underlying or supporting structure

36
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What happens during the process of electrolysis?

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a certain amount of electricity releases a certain amount of an element

37
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What was the new method that provided a new way to identify many new elements? (think about light)

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It was discovered that the light emitted from a substance is very characteristic and that only special frequencies are emitted

38
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What could Thomas show with cathode materials?

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that all particles have similar properties, no matter which material they emanated

39
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What does emanated mean?

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Produced from

40
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Where did Thomas say the corpuscles moved about in an atom?

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a sphere of uniform positive electrification

41
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What did it mean when Thomas thought corpuscles moved about in a sphere of positive electrification?

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That the atom was not indivisible.

42
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What is mica, and how does it contribute to the atom?

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Mica is a shiny silicate mineral with a layered structure and was used in experiments to scatter particles.

43
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Who was the first researcher that observed radioactivity?

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Henri Becquerel

44
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What did radioactivity prove the existence of? How?

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That other elements other than uranium existed because they had stronger radioactivity than uranium.

45
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What does a- of B- decay show?

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the transformation of one element into another

46
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True or False: the radiation of a material is related to some properties of the element?

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True

47
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What were a- rays discovered to be, why was this shocking?

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helium which was thought to only exist in the sun and not on earth.

48
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How did experimenters look at the rays and determine mass/charge ratio?

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applying a well defined magnetic field rectangular to the direction of the rays – from the deflection the charge/mass ratio could be determined.

49
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From what point of view are all atoms distinguishable?

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from a chemical point of view

50
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What was artificial transmutation?

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What scientists attempted to use to modify atoms

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