CHEMISTRY PAPER 1

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Define element?
When all the atoms are the same
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What is the symbol for Magneisum?
Mg
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What is the symbol for Sulfur?
S
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What is a compound?
Where it contains two or more different elements chemically combined in a fixed proportion
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Give an example of a compound?
Magnesium sulfide
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Name a key fact about compounds?
They usually have totally different properties to the elements that they're made from
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What is a mixture?
Where there are different elements or compounds not chemically combined together
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How do you separate a mixture?
By using a physical technique e.g. filtration or distilation
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What is a molecule?
Any elements chemically joined
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What happened in 1897?
Scientists discovered that atoms contain tiny negative particles called electrons
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Why was the discovery in 1897 a big thing?
As it showed that atoms are not spheres that cannot be divided - they have an internal structure
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What did the plum-pudding model suggest?
That atoms are a ball of positve charge with negative electrons embedded in it
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What did scientists replace the plum pudding with?
The nuclear model
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What is the smaller number called in a symbol?
Atomic number
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What is the larger number called?
The mass number
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How do you work out the number of neutrons?
Subtract the Mass number and Atomic number
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Define Isotopes?
Atoms of an element with different numbers of neutrons
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What is it called when a solid changes to a liquid?
Melting
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