Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Long Quiz PHYS
Long Quiz PHYS
Long Quiz PHYS
atomic numbers?
Ans: Technetium
Ans: Uranium
Ans: corpuscles
An English physicist who discovered the negatively charged particles inside an atom.
A British physicist who discovered the negatively charged particles inside an atom.
It is a nuclear reaction where one neutron will turn into proton and beta particle is
released.
He first arranged the Periodic Table of Elements according to the elements' atomic
mass?
Ans: 1937
Ans: atom
He believed that everything in the universe is made up of the 4 elements: air, fire, water
and earth.
It comes from the Greek word "stoicheion" wich means smallest division.
Ans: element
He added that all atoms of one element are identical to each other but different from the
atoms of another element?
Ans: orbitals
He proposed that all four- air, fire, water and earth are substances and called them roots.
Ans: Empedocles
Who treated the four elements geometrically and named them Platonic solids.
Ans: Plato
He discovered each element suing the qualities hot, cold, dry, wet or dry. He also added
the 5th element, aether.
Ans: Aristotle
The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter.
It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a
universal elixir.
Ans: alchemy
Ans: China
Ans: electron