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Ch. 12&13 vocab
ch 12&13 vocab
Word | Definition |
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John Dalton | Atomic theory |
J.J. Thompson | small particles in atom |
Ernest Rutherford | positive charged nucleus, atom mostly empty space electrons travel around nucleus |
Niels Bohr | electrons travel in clouds |
Democritus | 1st to come up with the idea of an atom |
Dmitri Mendeleev | Father of perdiodic table. orange elements by atomic mass |
Henry Mosely | Rearaanged periodic table by atomic number |
Element | A pure substance that can't be broken down physically or chemically |
Compound | two or more elements combined chemically |
Mixture | a combination of two or more substances that are not chemically combined |
atom | the smallest particle into which and element can be divided and still retain all the properties of that element |
protons | the positively charged particles of the nucleus; the number of protons in a nucleus is the atomic number, which determines the identity of an element |
electron | the negatively charged particles found in all atoms; invovled in the fromation of of chemical means |
neutrons | the particles of the nucleus that have no charge |
periodic | having a regular repeating pattern |
periodic law | a law that states that the chemical and physical properties if the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers |
atomic number | he number of protons in the nucleus of an atom; the same for all atoms of an element |
atomic mass | the weighted average of the masses of all the naturally occuring istopes of an element |
isotope | atoms that have the same number of protons but have different numbers of of neutrons |
valence electron | the electrons in the outermost energy level of an atom; these electrons are involved in forming chemical bonds |