What were originally thought to be the four groups of elements?
What is Fire, Earth, Air, and Water
100
What are the three types of elements on the periodic table?
What are metals, non-metals and metalloids.
100
Where is Mendeleev from?
What is Russia
100
What element represents C?
What is carbon
200
What two groups did alchemists split up into?
What is the spiritual side of alchemy, and the science of chemistry.
200
What does WHMIS actually mean?
What is Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
200
What are metalloids and why are they important?
What is that metalloids are a type of element that share properties of metals and non-metals, and are important for tasks that require specific characteristics of both metals and non-metals.
200
What did Mendeleev accomplish?
What is he founded the periodic table and found patterns in the while organizing elements that allowed him to organize elements in groups of similar properties.
200
What are two rules that the symbols of elements follow?
Answers can be: What is the first letter is always capitalized and the second is lower case, every element is represented by first letter of its name in Latin OR English, and when a letter is previously used another letter is added.
300
What contributed to the manufacture of amalgams, the alloys of mercury and other metals?
What is alchemy
300
What are the common properties of metals?
What is high lustre, high malleability, high ductility, good conductivity for heat and electricity, solid at room temperature, and high density.
300
Which have a lower melting point: metals or non-metals?
What is non-metals
300
How did Mendeleev organize the elements?
What is by increasing mass and similar properties
300
What is the symbol for lead? Explain why it is different and what name the symbol is based off of.
What is Pb, it was one of the first elements to be found, therefore it is named after it's Latin name, plumbum.
400
Where did alchemy flourish?
What is Asian and European cultures
400
In the formula CO2, what does the 2 represent?
What is the proportion of the oxygen in the compound.
400
List 5 non-metals
Answers can be: What are sulfur, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, phosphorus, selenium, iodine, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
400
Why did Dmitri Mendeleev leave gaps in between some elements?
What is that based on his studies, he predicted that there would be other elements that will be found that would fill in the gaps that other elements did not work in.
400
What symbol represents Zirconium?
What is Zr
500
Who were great scientists of alchemy involved in the discovery of new compounds?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Robert Boyle
500
Who created the symbolic system of the elements?
Who is Jons Jakob Berzelius
500
List three metalloids.
What are silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, boron, polonium, and astatine
500
What would Mendeleev do if an element would not fit in its group when listed by increasing mass?
What is he would put the element in the group instead, even if the order of mass was changed.
500
List two of the three symbols that represent ytterbium, zinc, and xenon.