Chemists
Proposed that all matter is made of atoms and created the first table of elements based on his calculations of atomic weight.
Who is John Dalton?
One of the early experimenters who tried to turn one kind of matter into another kind of matter; such as lead into gold
What are alchemists?
Flask good for heating liquids.
Used for containing sensitive or toxic materials to the area where work is being done with them.
What is a fume hood?
The smallest unit of matter, an element.
What is an atom?
A French scientist who did many experiments and discovered that water is made of oxygen and hydrogen. Wrote an important book containing the first list of elements. Named oxygen.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
A Greek philosopher who named the atom and believed it was the smallest, indivisible unit of matter. (Someone else had already come up with the idea but did not explain it as well.)
Who is Democritus?
Used for accurately measuring liquids (not very small amounts).
What is a graduated cylinder?
Tools used for grasping objects.
What are forceps?
A general term for the stuff that makes up both living and non-living things.
What is matter?
An Irish Chemist and philosopher who did experiments to prove or disprove his ideas and discovered several fundamental gas laws. Used glassware and unknowingly discovered oxygen.
Who is Sir Robert Boyle?
A Greek philosopher who came up with the idea of the atom and believed that different atoms have different sizes and weights.
Who is Leucippus?
General term for glassware used to measure or move small volumes of liquids.
What is a pipet?
Used for heating liquids and solids.
What is a Bunsen burner?
Empty space containing no matter.
What is a vacuum?
An English philosopher and chemist, experimented with oxygen and discovered carbon dioxide gas.
Who is Joseph Priestley?
Who is Empedocles?
Duo of archaic glassware used for distillation.
What is a pelican and alembic?
An instrument that measures the amount the earth's gravitational pull is pulling on an object, which gives us it's weight on earth.
What is a scale?
The process of adding carbon dioxide gas to a liquid.
What is carbonation?
A Greek philosopher who studied astronomy, weather, and mathematics and asked questions about matter; believed that water was the fundamental unit of water.
Who is Thales?
What is an Erlenmayer flask?
Instrument that directly measures mass by using a double-pan in which a known mass is placed on one side and the object of unknown mass on the other.
What is a balance? or What is a Robervale balance?
Describing something that has become more dense or compact or that has changed from a gaseous state to a liquid or solid state.
What is condensed?