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Chemical Building Blocks - 1
Chemical Building Blocks - 1
1. A Brief History
Pre-atomic view of matter
The Greek Idea
Chemical Building Blocks:
Lavoisier: Conservation of Mass
Proust: Definite Proportions
Dalton: Atomic Theory
Atomic Theories, Models, and 2. Electricity and the Atom
3. X-rays and Radioactivity
Electronic Structure 4. Atomic Models
Rutherford’s nuclear model
Structure of the nucleus
The Bohr model and electronic arrangement
5. The Quantum Model
Electronic configuration
Quantum numbers
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Proust: Definite Proportions Dalton: Law of Multiple Proportions
Joseph Louis Proust: Copper carbonate always had Elements could
the same composition combine in in more
LAW OF DEFINITE PROPORTIONS or CONSTANT than one set of
COMPOSITION: A compound always contains the proportions.
same elements in certain definite proportions and in
no other combinations. If elements A and B
react to form two
J.J.Berzelius: Prepared an extensive list of atomic
weights; Lead sulfide experiments different compounds,
the masses of B
Henry Cavendish: 1783;
combined with a fixed
Hydrogen gas + Oxygen gas Water
mass of A, can be
1800: Volta designed a powerful battery
expressed as a ratio of
W.Nicholson and A.Carlisle would use to separate
water into its elements. small whole numbers
16 X + 8Y 8 X2Y
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Thomson’s Experiment: M/C
Were the rays beams of particles or did it
consist of energy, much like light?
1897: Joseph John Thomson
Cathode rays are deflected in an electric
field. Attracted by POSITIVE, deflected by
NEGATIVE.
Particles were the same regardless of the
electrodes or gas.
What would he conclude, then?
J.J. Thomson, measured mass/charge of e-
(1906 Nobel Prize in Physics) 2.2
2.2
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Plum-Pudding Model Thomson’s Calculations Thomson
PAPER
ROENTGEN RAYS
Measured mass of e- WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN
1895
(1923 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Working in a darkroom on the glow
produced in certain substances by cathode
rays
He noticed the glow also occurring on a
chemically-treated piece of paper (even in
next room). The “ray” could travel through
walls!
When he waved his hand between the
e- charge = -1.60 x 10-19 C radiation source and the glowing paper, he
could see the bones of his own hand on the
Thomson’s charge/mass of e- = -1.76 x 108 C/g paper.
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TYPES OF RADIOACTIVITY
Three types of radiation emanated
from these radioactive elements,
ERNEST RUTHERFORD, a New
Zealander, chose the names
alpha, beta, and gamma for
these.
ALPHA: beams of positive particles
(identical to He2+ ions
BETA: negatively-charged; identical to
cathode rays; therefore, an electron
GAMMA: not deflected; penetrating; a
form of energy
(Uranium compound)