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The scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
What is Chemistry?
To make table salt, Sodium likes to bond with this ion.
What is Chloride?
The "E" in his famous equation E=mc2 stands for energy, not his name.
Who is Albert Eistein?
He
What is Helium?
The number of these defines the atom's element.
What are protons?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Salts are formed by this type of bond.
What is an ionic bond?
She was the most prominent researcher in radioactive substances.
Who is Marie Curie?
Cu
What is Copper?
These subatomic particles control bonding.
What are electrons?
In other words, the atomic number or element number.
What is the number of protons?
Quartz, sugar, ice, and salts, are all examples of solids in this form.
What is crystalline?
His atomic theory is named after the Greek word "atomos", meaning indivisible.
Who is John Dalton?
K
What is Potassium?
These subatomic particles have no charge.
What are neutrons?
This is the type of bond formed when two atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
The halogens like to form bonds with this group.
What are the alkali metals?
If you want to know how many atoms are in one mole, you better know this chemist's number.
Who is Amedeo Avogadro?
Ag
What is Silver?
The center of the atom.
What is the nucleus?
What is a compound?
Salts are frequently formed by this type of reaction.
What is an acid/base or neutralization reaction?
This man organized the periodic table of the elements so well, he could predict an element's properties before they were discovered.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
Rn
What is Radon?
In the Bohr model of an atom, the negatively charged subatomic particles are organized into these energy levels.
What are orbitals?