What's the Formula!?
Sodium sulfide
What is Na2S?
Wavelength can be measured "crest to crest" or...
What is "trough to trough"?
BaSe
What is barium selenide?
The type of radiation the precedes red light in terms of energy
What is infrared radiation?
The frequency of light expected from a wavelength of 2.5 x 10-7 m
What is 1.2 x 1015 {Hz, 1/s, s-1}?
An easy way of determining the number of valence electrons for a representative element
What is the group number?
Calcium phosphide
What is Ca3P2?
The taller the wave the larger its...
What is amplitude?
AgNO3
What is silver nitrate?
The type of radiation just beyond violet light in terms of frequency
What is ultraviolet radiation?
The wavelength of light for a frequency of 6.10 x 1014 Hz
What is 4.91 x 10-7 m?
Atoms gain or lose electrons in order to attain this
What is a noble gas configuration/full "octet"?
Aluminum oxalate
What is Al2(C2O4)3?
The number of "cycles" a wave passes per second
What is frequency?
Mn(SO3)3
What is manganese (VI) sulfite?
The process of separating white light into all of its different wavelengths as it passes through a prism or water droplets (such as in the case of a rainbow)
What is dispersion of light?
The energy of radiation from a cell phone with a frequency of 7.50 x 108 MHz (1 MHz = 106 Hz)
What is 4.97 x 10-19 J?
This scientist developed a method of illustrating an atom's valence electrons by representation them as "dots" around the symbol for the element
Who is Lewis?
Cadmium phosphite
What is Cd3(PO3)2?
Waves that require a medium to propagate
What are mechanical waves?
Fe2(HPO4)3
What is iron (III) {biphosphate/hydrogen phosphate}?
The type of radiation with energy greater than UV but less than gamma
What are X-rays?
The energy from a wave with a wavelength of 1900 nm
What is 1.0 x 10-19 J?
Some elements (notably transition metals) never attain a true noble gas configuration; instead they have a "pseudo" noble gas configuration do to the presence of these
What are "d" electrons?
Ammonium dichromate
What is (NH4)2Cr2O7?
The phenomenon of light acting as both a wave and a particle
What is wave-particle duality?
Hg(C2H3O2)2
What is mercury (II) acetate?
The type of radiation with a longer wavelength than IR and also a greater frequency than radio waves
What are microwaves?
A wavelength of a bullet traveling 700. m/s with a mass of 0.0075 kg (Hint: use de Broglie equation)
What is 1.3 x 10-34 m
The shorthand configuration of an Fe3+ ion
What is [Ar] 3d5?