Periodic Table
The name of vertical columns in the periodic table
What are groups?
The scientific law that states matter cannot be created nor destroyed
What is The Law of Conservation of Mass?
An atom with a net charge not equal to zero
What is an ion?
The smallest pieces of light
What are photons?
The bond formed when two nonmetals share a set of electrons
What is a covalent bond?
The class of elements that are conductors, malleable, ductile, and have luster
What are metals?
The small, dense, positively charged center of an atom
What is the atomic nucleus?
The polyatomic ion with the chemical formula C2H3O2-
What is acetate?
The distance in a wave from crest to crest
What is wavelength?
A mutual electrical attraction between the nuclei and the valence electrons of other atoms that binds atoms together
What is a chemical bond?
The name of the non reactive group of gases on the right side of the periodic table
What are noble gases?
The part of an atom where the negatively charged particles are found
What is the electron cloud?
The group of the periodic table which would have to gain or lose 4 valence electrons to form a full shell
What is group 14?
The electromagnetic energy with the highest frequency and the shortest wavelength
What are gamma rays?
The scientific rule that states atoms want to have a full shell
What is the octet rule?
The periodic table trend that atomic size follows
What is down and to the left?
Atoms of the same elements that have different atomic masses
What are isotopes?
The number of ions of opposite charge surrounding an atom
What is coordination number?
The amount of energy needed to move electrons to different energy levels
What is a quantum?
The name of the covalent compound N₄S₆
What is tetranitrogen hexasulfide?
The name of a positively charged ion
What is cation
The 19th century scientist who discovered a negative charge in an atom, and constructed the plum pudding molecule
Who is J.J. Thomson?
The name of bromine, iodine, nitrogen, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and fluorine, for not being found alone
What are diatomic atoms?
The scientific principle that states it is impossible to determine simultaneously both position and velocity of an electron
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
The name of multiple correct Lewis dot structures
What are resonance structures?