C1 - Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table Flashcards
All Substances are made up of what?
Atoms
An atom is the smallest part of an element which can what?
Exist on it’s own
What is it called when a substance is made up of only one type of atom?
Element
What re the atoms of each element represented by?
Chemical symbols
What is it called when a substance is made up of two or more chemically bonded elements?
Compound
What do scientists use Chemical Formulae to show?
Different types of elements
How many atoms of each element each one molecule of the compound contains
Give an example of how you can separate two elements
Electrolysis
What is on the left side of a chemical equation?
Reactants
What is on the right side of a chemical equation?
Products
Is the mass of the products and reactants always equal?
Yes
Describe a mixture
Two or more elements, combined but not chemically bonded
What do the components in a mixture keep?
Their properties
How do you separate liquids and insoluble solids?
Filtration
How do you separate a soluble solid from a solution?
Crystallisation
How do you obtain a solvent from a solution?
Simple distillation
How do you separate mixtures with different boiling points?
Fractional distillation
How do you separate different coloured components of a mixture?
Chromotography
In early models what were atoms thought to be?
Tiny spheres that could be separated into different simpler particles
In 1898 Thomson discovered what?
Electrons
Does the atom have a positive charge?
No, its neutral
How did Geiger and Marsden discover there was a nucleus?
They bombarded a thin sheet of gold with alpha particles