ATOMIC STRUCTURE AND THE PERIODIC TABLE

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what is an atom?
the smallest part of an element that can exist
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what does a chemical symbol consist of?
-one or two letters
-always starts with a capital letter
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where are the metals on the periodic table?
the left
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where are the non metals on the periodic table?
the right
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what is a compound?
a substance that contains two or more elements, that is chemically combined
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what is an element?
a substance made of one atom only
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what is the definition of a chemical reaction?
a change in which atoms are rearranged to join each other differently to form new substances. often involve energy changes
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what is an ion?
a charged particle formed when an atom or a group of atoms loses or gains electrons
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what is a word equation?
represents a chemical reaction using the names of the substances involved
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what is a reactant?
substances that react together in a chemical reaction
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what is the product?
the substance formed in a chemical reaction
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how are word equations structured
reactants -> products
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what are state symbols?
symbols to show if the substance is a liquid, solid, gas or an aqueous solution
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what is a pure substance?
consists of one element or compound
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what is a mixture
consists of two or more different substances not chemically joined together
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why is filtration used?
to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid
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why is crystallisation used?
used to produce solid crystals from a solution
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why is paper chromatography used?
to separate mixtures of soluble substances
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when did john dalton publish his theory about atoms?
1803
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what did jj Thompson discover?
the electron, which led to the plum pudding model
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what did ernest rutherford do?
designed an experiment to test the plum pudding model. he fired positively charged alpha particles at thin gold foil
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what did neils bohr do?
adapted ernest rutherfords nuclear model. he discovered protons
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who discovered neutrons?
James Chadwick in 1932
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what is the structure of the atom?
a nucleus surrounded by electrons
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what is an isotope?
atoms of an element with the same number of protons and electrons, but different number of neutrons
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