What Do You Know About The History Of Chemistry? Let’s Find Out!
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When you’re in school, you often have to juggle your scientific and historical subjects separately – but today we’re combining the two! Years of research, heartbreak, triumph and rich history went into supplying you with the scientific knowledge that you have at your fingertips every time you open a science book, and it’s time to learn about some of it! What do you know about the history of chemistry? Let’s find out!
- 1.Who pictured the atom as a tiny sphere composed of a positivie jelly-like materak which accounts for the mass of an atom and had negatively charged electrons distributed throughout to "neutralize" the atom?
- A.
Rutherford
- B.
Bohr
- C.
Thomson
- D.
Heisenberg
- 2.Given credit with naming the "neutron"
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Rutherford
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Chadwick
- 3.Plum Pudding Model of the Atom
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Rutherford
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Chadwick
- 4.Suggested that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure have the smae number of molecules.
- A.
Heisenberg
- B.
Boyle
- C.
Avogadro
- D.
Dalton
- 5.Given credit for the first periodic table. Arranged his periodic table based on atomic weight and chemical reactivity.
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Mendeleev
- C.
Lavoisier
- D.
Sir Humphrey Davy
- 6.Gold Foil Experiment
- A.
Rutherford
- B.
Thomson
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Heisenberg
- 7.Supported the Four Element Concept devised by Empedocles
- A.
Dalton
- B.
Avogadro
- C.
Einstein
- D.
Aristotle
- 8.Believed the atom to be an indestructible, indivisible entity. Came up with the name "atom"
- A.
Democritus
- B.
Aristotle
- C.
Thomson
- D.
Rutherford
- 9.
- A.
Democritus
- B.
Aristotle
- C.
Rutherford
- D.
Dalton
- 10.Given credit for the "electron"
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Rutherford
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Chadwick
- 11.Calculated that the atom consisted mostly of empty space through which electrons move and also concluded that there was a tiny, dense region "the nucleus" centrally located within the atom that contained all of an atom's positive charge and virtually all of its mass.
- A.
Einstein
- B.
Aristotle
- C.
Chadwick
- D.
Rutherford
- 12.Suggested that electrons can only be in discrete orbits, and that they absorb or emit energy in discrete amounts as they move from one orbit to another.
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Rutherford
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Heisenberg
- 13.Uncertainty Principle
- A.
Heisenberg
- B.
Thomson
- C.
Rutherford
- D.
Bohr
- 14.Planetary Model of the Atom
- A.
Heisenberg
- B.
Bohr
- C.
Rutherford
- D.
Thomson
- 15.Given credit with discovery of the proton.
- A.
Thomson
- B.
Rutherford
- C.
Bohr
- D.
Chadwick
- 16.Stated "It is inherently impossible to know simultaneously both the exact momentum of the electron and its exact location in space."
- A.
Dalton
- B.
Schrodinger
- C.
Boyle
- D.
Heisenberg
- 17.
- A.
Mendeleev
- B.
Moseley
- C.
Rutherford
- D.
Einstein
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