Nights of the Periodic Table
It's the chemistry name for rows.
What are periods?
The electric charge of a neutron.
What is zero?
It has atomic symbol Ag.
What is silver?
Anything that has mass and occupies space.
What is matter?
This state of matter has a definite shape and a definite volume.
What is a solid?
It's the chemistry name for columns.
What are groups?
Where the neutron lives.
What is the nucleus?
Its symbol was on a former presidential candidate's license plate, "Au H2O"
What is gold? (Barry Goldwater).
The study of matter, its properties, and the changes it undergoes.
What is chemistry?
This state of matter is very compressible.
What is a gas?
Lithium, potassium, and sodium are in this group of reactive metals.
What are alkali metals?
The neutron's closest neighbor.
What is a proton?
Its name means "quick silver."
What is mercury?
Two or more atoms join together in a specific shape.
What is a molecule?
The form of matter has distinct properties and composition that does not vary from sample to sample.
What is a (pure) substance?
This type of substance cannot be decomposed into simpler substances.
What are elements?
He discovered the neutron in 1932.
Who is (James) Chadwick?
Although it lies in the metalloid region, our text considers it a metal.
What is polonium?
This state of matter has no fixed shaped and no fixed volume.
What is a gas?
These substances are composed of two or more kinds of atoms, like: H20 or NaCl
What are compounds?
This is the group just to the left of the halogens.
What are the chalcogens?
The number of neutrons in zinc-65.
What is 35?
It's the metal whose symbol is taken from its name , "wolfram," is still used in Germany.
What is tungsten?
This state of matter assume the shape of the portion of the container that it occupies, but has a definite volume.
What is a liquid?
This is one type of mixture; the other is homogeneous.
What is (a) heterogeneous (mixture)?