Orbitals
The maximum number of electrons that a single orbital can contain.
What is two?
It is the name of this chemical compound: CaCl2
What is calcium chloride?
What are metals?
It's the name for a negatively charged ion -- an atom that has gained one or more electrons.
What is an anion?
A popular bookstore AND another name for the elements on the far right of the periodic table.
What is "Barnes & Noble Gases"?
The overall shape of an s-orbital.
What is a sphere?
Element 101 (Me) is named after him, the creator of the periodic table.
Who was Dmitri Mendeleev?
Sodium and Potassium are found in this group in the periodic table.
What is Group 1A (or Group 1)?
It's the name for a positively charged ion - an atom that has lost one or more electrons.
What is a cation?
An old five-cent coin featuring a bison AND the pay TV channel that brought us SpongeBob.
What is "Buffalo Nickelodeon"?
The number of p-orbitals in a given level (other than 1, which doesn't have any p-orbitals).
What is three?
It is the principle that electrons will fill the lowest energy orbitals first.
What is the Aufbau principle?
Silicon and Boron are examples of these elements that have properties in between metals and non-metals.
What are metalloids?
It's the lowest-energy state of an atom, where all the electrons occupy the lowest possible orbitals.
What is the 'ground state'?
Doing weight training AND Tony Stark's alter ego.
What is "Pumping Iron Man"?
One of these orbitals has the shape of a donut with a dumbbell passing through it.
What is a d-orbital?
He was the primary developer of the modern quantum mechanical model of the atom.
Who was Erwin Schroedinger?
In the periodic table in your book, the various column labels (group numbers, such as 1A and 6A) refer to the number of these.
What are valence electrons?
It's the name for a material that, when dissolved, can conduct electricity.
What is an electrolyte?
What you might call it if the inventor of dot structures when exploring with Superman's alter ago.
What is the "Lewis and Clark (Kent)" expedition?
The name for a plane which passes through an orbital, in which there is zero probability density. Similarly, the places on the string that do not oscillate when a string is put into resonance.
What is a node?
What is the formula for sodium sulfide?
Na2S
It's the only isotope of any element that contains zero neutrons.
What is 1H?
It is a process in which a chemical is broken down by passing an electric current through it.
What is electrolysis?
What you might call Ophelia's father's stash of radioactive element #84.
What is "Polonius' Polonium"?