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| Where are metals and nonmetals located on the periodic table? What about metalloids? |
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Metals are on the left, nonmetals are on the right
Metalloids are in the "stairway" in the middle that goes down and to the right |
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| What properties belong to metals? |
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| Metals are usually shiny solids that are good conductors |
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| What are properties of nonmetals? |
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| Nonmetals are gases or brittle solids. They are not good conductors |
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| What are properties of metalloids? |
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| They can have properties of both metals and nonmetals. They are semiconductors usually. (they "kind of" conduct some heat or electricity) |
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| Where are protons located and what is their charge? |
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| In the nucleus --- positive |
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| Where are neutrons located and what is their charge? |
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| In the nucleus and neutral |
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| Where are electrons located and what is their charge? |
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| Outside the nucleus in the little " rooms" or orbitals They are negative |
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| What are the rules for the "atom hotel" also known as the Bohr Model? |
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2 rooms on the first floor
8 on the next 2 floors
Fill each floor before moving to the next |
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| The protons plus neutrons |
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| What is the atomic number |
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| What is the MOST CURRENT atomic model |
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| an atom with a different number of neutrons |
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| An atom with a different number of electrons |
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| Which "particle" determines the identity of an atom? (if this changes, then the atom no longer is the same type of atom) |
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| Protons - they always determine WHICH element the atom is ... |
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| Where are acids and bases on the pH scale? |
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Acids 0-6
Neutral 7
Bases 8-14 |
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| vinegar, lemon juice, citric acid, fountain or canned soda |
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| which is more dangerous, acids or bases |
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| both are equally dangerous, depending on how low or how high the pH is |
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| Where are gases found on the periodic table ? |
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| Where are the alkali metals found? |
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| Where are the alkaline earth metals |
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| Where are the halogens found? |
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| 2nd family from the right beside the noble gases |
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| where are the noble gases found ? |
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| they are the family that is most to the right |
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| What is similar about families on the periodic table? |
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They tend to react the same in reactions
They have the same valence electrons |
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| What are valence electrons |
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| They are in the outer orbital of an atom |
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| What is important about valence electrons |
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| Atoms with the same number of valence electrons tend to react similarly in chemical reactions (FAMILIES) |
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| What is key about noble gases? |
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They do not like to combine with other atoms
They have a full set of valence electrons |
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