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Atomic Structure
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Defining the Atom
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Early Models of the Atom
• An atom is the smallest particle of an element
that retains its identity in a chemical reaction.
• Philosophers and scientists have proposed
many ideas on the structure of atoms.
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Defining the Atom
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Democritus’s Atomic Philosophy
How did Democritus describe atoms?
Democritus
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Democritus believed that atoms were
indivisible and indestructible.
Democritus’s ideas were limited because
they didn’t explain chemical behavior and
they lacked experimental support.
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Dalton’s Atomic Theory
How did John Dalton further
Democritus’s ideas on atoms?
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By using experimental methods, Dalton
transformed Democritus’s ideas on atoms
into a scientific theory.
The result was Dalton’s atomic theory.
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All elements are composed of tiny indivisible
particles called atoms.
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Atoms of the same element are identical. The
atoms of any one element are different from
those of any other element.
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Atoms of different elements can physically mix
together or can chemically combine in simple
whole-number ratios to form compounds.
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Chemical reactions occur when atoms are
separated, joined, or rearranged. Atoms of one
element are never changed into atoms of
another element in a chemical reaction.
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Atoms are solid and
indivisible
Solid Ball- no Parts
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1. The ancient Greek philosopher credited with
suggesting all matter is made of indivisible
atoms is
a. Plato.
b. Aristotle.
c. Democritus.
d. Socrates.
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2. Dalton's atomic theory improved earlier
atomic theory by
a. teaching that all matter is composed of tiny
particles called atoms.
b. theorizing that all atoms of the same
element are identical.
c. using experimental methods to establish a
scientific theory.
d. not relating atoms to chemical change.
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Subatomic Particles
Subatomic Particles
What are three kinds of subatomic particles?
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Subatomic Particles
Three kinds of subatomic particles are
electrons, protons, and neutrons.
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Subatomic Particles
Electrons
In 1897, the English physicist J. J. Thomson
(1856–1940) discovered the electron. Electrons
are negatively charged subatomic particles.
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Subatomic Particles
Thomson performed experiments that involved
passing electric current through gases at low
pressure.
The result was a glowing beam, or cathode ray,
that traveled from the cathode to the anode.
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Cathode Ray Tube
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A cathode ray is deflected by a magnet.
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A cathode ray is deflected by electrically
charged plates.
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Thomson concluded that a cathode ray is a
stream of electrons. Electrons are parts of the
atoms of all elements.
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Protons and Neutrons
In 1886, Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) observed
a cathode-ray tube and found rays traveling in
the direction opposite to that of the cathode rays.
He concluded that they were composed of
positive particles.
Such positively charged subatomic particles are
called protons.
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Plum Pudding Model
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Robert A. Millikan (1868 – 1953)
Millikan used the experimental evidence of
Thomson and carried out further experiments
that resulted in the calculation of the mass of
the electron. The mass of the electron is
1/1840 that of a hydrogen atom and the
electron has a unit negative charge.
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Eugene Goldstein (1850 – 1930)
Observed a cathode ray tube and found rays
traveling in the opposite direction to the
cathode rays. Such positively charged
subatomic particles are called protons. Each
proton has a mass about 1840 times that of
an electron.
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Subatomic Particles
In 1932, the English physicist James Chadwick
(1891–1974) confirmed the existence of yet
another subatomic particle: the neutron.
Neutrons are subatomic particles with no
charge but with a mass nearly equal to that of a
proton.
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Subatomic Particles
Table 4.1 summarizes the properties of
electrons, protons, and neutrons.
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The Atomic Nucleus
The Atomic Nucleus
How can you describe the structure of
the nuclear atom?
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The Atomic Nucleus
Ernest Rutherford’s Portrait
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Rutherford’s Gold-Foil Experiment
In 1911, Rutherford and his coworkers at the
University of Manchester, England, directed a
narrow beam of alpha particles at a very thin
sheet of gold foil.
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The Atomic Nucleus
Rutherford’s Gold-Foil Experiment
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The Atomic Nucleus
Alpha particles scatter from the gold foil.
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The Atomic Nucleus
Rutherford’s Gold-Foil Experiment
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The Atomic Nucleus
The Rutherford Atomic Model
Rutherford concluded that the atom is mostly
empty space. All the positive charge and almost
all of the mass are concentrated in a small region
called the nucleus.
The nucleus is the tiny central core of an atom
and is composed of protons and neutrons.
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The Atomic Nucleus
In the atom, the protons and neutrons
are located in the nucleus.
The electrons are distributed around
the nucleus and occupy almost all the
volume of the atom.
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1. Which of the following is NOT an example of
a subatomic particle?
a. proton
b. molecule
c. electron
d. neutron
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2. The nucleus of an atom consists of
a. electrons only.
b. protons only.
c. protons and neutrons.
d. electrons and neutrons.
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3. Most of the volume of the atom is occupied
by the
a. electrons.
b. neutrons.
c. protons and neutrons.
d. protons.
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Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
Was a young Danish physicist and a student of
Rutherford’s when he proposed that the electron
is only found in specific circular paths, or orbits,
around the nucleus. This model of the atom is
similar to the solar system because the
electrons orbit the nucleus like the planets orbit
the sun. Each electron orbit in Bohr’s model has
a fixed energy level.
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Each energy level can hold a certain number of electrons.
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Level one can only hold 2 e’s,
Level two holds 8 e’s,
Level 3 can hold a maximum of 18 e’s
Level four holds 32 e’s.
The energy of the electrons increases as the
levels increase. When electrons lose energy they
go down a level and when electrons gain energy
they go to a higher level.
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