Chapter 11: The Atomic Nature of Matter Flashcards
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Matter
Any substance that has mass and takes up space
Solids
Definite volume and no definite shape
Liquids
Definite volume and no definite shape
Gas
No definite volume and shape (free to move)
Plasma
Electrons are “freed” from their host atome due to high temperatures
Solid melting becomes
Liquid
Liquid vaporizating becomes
Gas
Gas ionizating becomes
Plasma
Plasma deionizating becomes
Gas
Gas condensating becomes
Liquid
Liquid freezing becomes
Solid
Atom is
The building blocks of all matter
The idea of matter thought to be composed of atoms by
Greeks from the fifth century B.C
The idea of matter thought by
Aristotle to be a combination of four elements earth (solids), air (gases), water (liquid), and fire (states of flames)
The idea of matter further proposed as atoms in
1800s by an English meteorologist and schoolteacher, John Dalton
All things are made up of
Atoms
Robert Brown, a botanist, observed collisions between visible particles and invisible atoms under a microscope
1) Studied grains of pollen suspended in water
2) Observed grains were continuously moving and jumping about, bumping into each other
Brownian Motion results from collisions between
Visible particles and invisible atoms
Brown couldn’t see the atoms but could see
The effect they had on particles he could see
Einstein later confirmed Brownian Motion in
1905
Einstein made it possible to
Find the mass of atoms and the reality of the atom was firmly established
Characteristics of atoms
1) Incredibly tiny
2) Numerous
3) Perpetually in Motion
4) Ageless
The head of a pin contains
10^18 atoms and 60,000,000,000,000,000,000
One breath contains sextillion atoms
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^21 atoms)