Mendeleev
Berzelius
Ancient Chemistry/History
Metals, Non-Metals and Mettaloids
Symbols of Elements
100
The place where Dmitri Mendeleev was from.
Where is Russia?
100
Berzelius suggested this for simplifying the names of the elements.
What is a symbolic system to represent all the elements?
100
Alchemists were in search of the _________'s stone.
What is the philosopher's stone?
100
Semiconductors of electricity.
What are metalloids?
100
What country is germanium named after?
What is Germany?
200
Mendeleev sorted the cards (of elements) in this order.
What is mass increasing from left to right?
200
The language is the origination of the symbol 'Au' for gold.
What is Latin?
200
Alchemists believed all of the substances in the world were composed of these elements: fire, air, water and ______
What is earth?
200
Liquid metal at room temperature.
What is mercury?
200
What is the Latin name for lead? (Hint: symbol is Pb!)
What is plumbum?
300
The name for a column of elements with similar properties.
What is a group/family?
300
The symbol for the element 'terbium'.
What is Tb?
300
The main goal of the alchemists.
What is to change common metals to gold, cure all diseases, and prolong life?
300
Liquid nonmetal at room temperature.
What is bromine?
300
What is the symbol for yttrium?
What is "Y"?
400
Mendeleev was able to predict the ________ of the unknown elements which would fill the gaps in his table.
What are properties?
400
The German word for which the symbol 'W' is used for tungsten.
What is Wolfram?
400
What was alchemy a reflection of? (or what inspired alchemy?)
What are serious religious beliefs of the Middle Ages?
400
What is the symbol for aluminum?
What is Al?
400
What are the elements used in the compound H2O? And, how many parts for each element?
What are hydrogen and oxygen? 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen.
500
How was Mendeleev able to predict the properties of the unknown elements that would fill the gaps in his table?
What is to base the properties of the unknown elements by looking at the group/family and the row it was in. This is because elements in a group/family have similar properties, and the row goes in ascending order of mass from left to right.
500
Three suggestions Berzelius suggested for giving every element a unique symbol.
What is 1. Having every element represented by the first letter of its name or by the first letter and another letter from its name. Elements identified first used their Latin names. 2. If the first letter is already used by another element, another letter from the rest of the name is added. 3. The first letter must be capitalized, with the second letter in lower case.
500
The two different groups the alchemists in Europe had separated into.
What is one group continuing to search for the philosopher's stone and to change common metals into gold, and the other group focused on discovering new compounds and their reactions.
500
Name 4 common properties/characteristics of metals and non-metals. (Four for each).
Metals: What is high density, high malleability, high lustre, high ductility, high conductivity, is usually a metal at room temperature, reacts with other acids and water. Non-metals: What is low lustre, low malleability, low melting and boiling points, usually a gas at room temperature, poor conductivity.
500
Name four elements that have symbols beginning with the letter "C".
What are cadmium Cd, calcium Ca, carbon C, chlorine Cl, chromium Cr, cobalt Co, copper Cu.
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