Definitions
Matter Matters
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A Seat at the
Periodic Table
Ionic and Molecular Compounds
100

The Law of Conservation of Mass

What is the idea that mass is neither created or destroyed, only rearranged?

100

The kind of change which happens when a wire is cut, and the material has not been changed into a new material.

What is a physical change?

100

The 3 kinds of particles that make up an atom.

What is electron (-), proton(+), and neutron (0)?

100

The number of protons in the atom is represented by this.

What is the atomic number?

100

Ionic compounds are formed between these two kinds of elements.

What are metal and nonmetal?

200

The outermost electrons that give an element its chemical properties

What are valence electrons?

200

The kind of change when a cake is baked and the original substance becomes something entirely different.

What is a chemical change?

200

Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons.

What is an isotope?

200

The number of protons and neutrons in an atom is represented by this.

What is atomic mass?

200

The name of the molecular compound with formula N2O7.

What is dinitrogen heptoxide?

300

Any atom with a positive charge

What is a cation?

300

Different kinds of atoms bonded together into a molecule form this.

What is a compound?

300

JJ Thompson is credited with discovering this subatomic particle.

What is the electron? 

300

Elements on the left side of the periodic table that tend to lose electrons easily.

What are metals?

300

The total charge of an ionic compound.

What is 0 or neutral?

400

A vertical column of elements that have similar chemical properties

What is a group?

400

This periodic trend increases as you move to the left and down the periodic table.

What is atomic radius or size?

400

The maximum number of electrons that d orbitals can hold.

What is 10?

400

Elements in group 7 are called this.

What are halogens?

400

The formula and name of the ionic compound that forms between Lithium (+1) and oxygen (-2).

What is lithium oxide (Li2O)?

500

The energy required to remove an electron from an atom

What is ionization energy?

500

Transferred electrons are lost and gained in this type of bonding.

What is ionic bonding?

500

This scientists is credited with the quantum atomic model which places electrons in clouds of probability.

Who is Werner Heisenberg?

500

Alkali metals only have this charge when they form an ion.

What is +1?

500

The chemical name of H2SO4

Sulfuric acid