What is the 'brain' of the atom?
Nucleus
What is the name of element number 1?
Hydrogen
What element has the symbol Xe?
Xenon
What characteristics did Dalton attribute to atoms?
Smooth hard balls that could not be broken into smaller pieces.
What particle has a positive charge?
Proton
What element has an atomic mass of 238.
U, Uranium
What element has 17 electrons?
Chlorine
What did Thomson discover about atoms?
They contain negatively charged particles containing electrons.
What particle has no charge?
Neutron
What is the name of the element with the elemental symbol Zr?
Zirconium
What element has 157 neutrons & is named after a scientist (creator of the world's first nuclear reactor)?
Fm, Fermium
What were the results of Rutherford's experiment?
He felt that an atom was mostly empty space but has a positive charge at its center.
What particle has a negative charge?
Electron
Which element has 42 as its atomic number?
Mo, Molybdenum
What element is a gas with 22 neutrons?
Argon
How did Bohr revise the atomic model?
Suggested that electrons are found only in specific orbits around the nucleus.
What particle is not inside the nucleus?
Electrons
What element has the elemental symbol Yb?
Ytterbium
What element is a sold named after a planet with 144 neutrons?
Np, Neptumium
What is the cloud model theory?
Electrons move rapidly within a a cloudlike region around the nucleus.