The Scope of Chemistry
Anything that has mass and occupies space.
What is matter?
Understanding chemistry helps you evaluate product labels and media claims, making you this kind of citizen.
What is an informed citizen?
This French chemist, working carefully with measurement and experimentation, helped shift the field away from alchemy toward modern chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
This is the first of three steps for solving a numeric chemistry problem, where you identify what's given and what's unknown.
What is analyze?
This SI unit measures the amount of a substance and is sometimes nicknamed a “chemist's dozen.”
What is the mole?
The study of processes that take place in living organisms.
What is biochemistry?
A strong foundation in chemistry is essential preparation for many of these paths, including medicine, engineering, and nutrition.
What is a career?
Lavoisier's wife and lab partner played this essential role in his research, translating scientific texts and illustrating experiments.
Who is Marie-Anne Lavoisier (his collaborator/lab partner)?
This second step in solving a numeric problem is where you actually perform the math to reach a solution.
What is calculate?
The study of composition of matter and the changes matter undergoes.
What is chemistry?
Studying/pursuing chemical knowledge for its own sake.
What is pure chemistry?
Studying chemistry helps us make sense of everyday phenomena in the ___________. (e.g. from rust forming to bread rising)
What is the natural world?
This is considered one of the most essential tools in chemistry and science generally, allowing researchers to share results, verify each other's work, and build on discoveries.
What is collaboration and communication?
This final step in solving a numeric chemistry problem checks that your answer makes sense and has correct units and significant figures.
What is Evaluate?
Chemistry overlaps with several other disciplines and helps us explain them better. We can therefore appreciate chemistry as a __________ science?
What is 'central'?
Using knowledge of corrosive chemical agents to clean pipes is an example of ____________.
What is applied chemistry?
This modern research goal in chemistry includes developing biodegradable materials and reducing pollution.
What is benefit to the environment?
Although the scientific method is often taught as a fixed list of steps, in real research it usually looks like this instead.
What is a non-linear sequence (steps are often repeated or revisited out of order)?
When solving a NON-numeric chemistry problem, after Analyze, this is the second step, where you determine and write your response.
What is solve/answer?
This state of matter has neither a definite shape nor a definite volume, expanding to fill its container.
What is a gas?
This type of chemistry investigates a special chemical element that makes up diamonds.
What is organic chemistry?
Modern chemists tackle this two-part energy challenge — discovering new sources of power and using less of what we already have.
What are producing/conserving energy?
If experimental evidence supports a hypothesis, this is what a scientist does with it. They often continue to test it under new conditions.
What is 'accept the hypothesis'?
This is also the final step in solving a non-numeric chemistry problem where you check that your response is reasonable and complete.
What is evaluate?
This is the chemical symbol for gold, derived from its Latin name “aurum.”
What is Au?