Nuclear know-how
Chemistry's Electrons
Are you Positive?
For you, no charge
Lewis Structures and Atomic models
100
This nuclear reaction requires a "heavy" starting material, such as U-235.
What is fission?
100
Compared to a proton and neutron, this is the mass of an electron
What is zero?
100
The number of protons in a hydrogen atom.
What is one?
100
How many neutrons are in lithium if the mass number is 7?
What is four?
100
The Lewis structure for a neutral potassium atom.
What is K(one dot)?
200
This nuclear reaction can happen between hydrogen or helium atoms (light nuclei) and intense heat and pressure.
What is fusion?
200
The number of electrons in a neutral sodium atom.
What is 11?
200
The number of protons in a calcium atom.
What is twenty?
200
The number of neutrons in Mg-25.
What is thirteen?
200
The Lewis structure for ionic (charged) potassium?
What is K(eight dots)?
300
This nuclear reaction is how the sun and other stars produce energy.
What is fusion?
300
The number of valence electrons in an aluminum atom.
What is 3?
300
The number of protons in an atom of He-3?
What is 2?
300
The nuclear reaction that neutrons set off causing a chain reaction if there is a critical mass of a heavy element.
What is fission?
300
The electron configuration for an stable sulfur atom.
What is S with 2 energy levels, 2 dots on the inner, eight dots on the outer?
400
This nuclear reaction produces energy in nuclear power plants.
What is fission
400
The oxidation number for Oxygen.
What is negative two?
400
The number of protons in a positively charged zinc atom.
What is thirty?
400
The difference in the number of neutrons in O-16 versus O-18.
What is two?
400
The Lewis dot structure for He.
What is He (two dots)?
500
This is the element used as fuel in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
What is plutonium?
500
The oxidation number for Krypton.
What is zero?
500
The oxidation number for all alkali metals.
What is 1+?
500
This describes an atom that's neither a cation or an anion.
What is neutral?
500
The Lewis dot structure for a positively charged hydrogen atom.
What is H (no dots!)?