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GC1 Lesson 3 Atoms Molecules and Ions
GC1 Lesson 3 Atoms Molecules and Ions
Isotope
Conservation of h. Atom
Matter i. Molecule
b. Law of Definite j. Ion
Proportion
k. Chemical formula
c. Law of Multiple
Proportion l. Molecular formula
d. Dalton’s Atomic m. Empirical formula
Theory
e. Atomic number
f. Mass number
Cut the paper in half…
… and again in half.
and again.
Can you go on cutting the paper
into half?
Though the cutting can go on and on
mentally, there is a physical limit to
this process.
It is impossible to cut the paper into
half forever.
There is a limit – a point where the
piece can no longer be divided.
This limit is an indivisible piece, which
was called by the Greek philosopher
Democritus as the ATOM.
However, beginning in the late 1800s,
experiments have indicated that atoms
are made up of smaller particles.
How does this picture show that particles and therefore mass are
conserved from reactant’s side to product’s side?
What is all that really happens to the particles in a chemical
reaction?
Can atoms of one type be changed into (transformed) atoms of
another type during a chemical reaction?
Note about showing “conservation” in particle
diagrams
If you have the reaction:
A2 + B2 A3B
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