Famous Chemists
Vocabulary Terms
Elements
Lab Equipment
Compounds
100
His number is used to find the number of moles of a substance.
Who is Amedeo Avogadro?
100
A pure substance that cannot be broken down into any other substances by chemical or physical means.
What is an element?
100
This element is required in the process of respiration which is necessary for all living organisms to live. 
What is Oxygen?
100
This tool has a cylindrical shape and is used to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is a Graduated Cylinder?
100
H2O
What is Water?
200
He created a periodic table by organizing elements into rows by increasing mass and columns by physical and chemical properties.
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev?
200
This law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed in any physical or chemical reaction.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
200
This element makes up 78% of the air we breathe.
What is Nitrogen?
200
This tool is used to transfer liquids and has a cone shape. 
What is a Funnel?
200
NaCl

What is Table Salt?

300
He is best known for proposing the modern atomic theory which is still used today. 
Who is John Dalton?
300
A reaction which combines multiple reactants to form a single product. 
What is a synthesis reaction?
300
This element allows your balloons to float. 
What is Helium?
300
An instrument used to determine the mass of a substance?
What is a Balance?
300
NH3
What is Ammonia?
400
She studied radioactivity and received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering polonium and radium. 
Who is Marie Curie?
400
The process whereby molecules of a gas confined in a container randomly pass through a tiny opening in the container.
What is effusion?
400
This element is found in bananas and can help to relieve cramps. 
What is Potassium?
400
This tool is gas-powered and is used to heat up substances. 
What is a Bunsen Burner?
400
C3H8
What is Propane?
500
His law states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional when the temperature is held constant.
Who is Robert Boyle?
500
States that each orbital can hold two electrons with opposite spins. 
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
500
This element is commonly found in matches.
What is Phosphorus?
500
This tool is small and metal and is used to hold small amounts of chemicals during heating at high temperatures. 
What is a Crucible?
500
C2H5OH
What is Ethanol?
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