Atomic Age

concern for young girls. But is anyone anywhere really under the impression that any publicity photo is a raw image?” (Debra Bass). Most people do know that images in magazines are retouched but insecurities develop very young, as little to the age of three. At the age of three children don’t know any better and believe that the picture is normal. It changes what they think is beautiful and socially accepted in the…

Demitri Mendeleeve was a Russian chemist who invented the first periodic table in 1869. The periodic table he made was very different from the modern day periodic table we know today. Henry Moseley updated Mendeleev's version of the periodic table in 1915. This is more like the periodic table that we know and use today. The only difference is that there has been many more elements added. Mendeleeve also had predicted a lot of the characteristics and properties of elements that would fill up…

Before talking about the elements, the atom must be discussed first. Atoms are the building blocks of everything—from the structures of a building to a household pet. The idea of the atom was first suggested by Democritus, a Greek philosopher born in 460 BC. Democritus hypothesized “that atoms were indivisible and infinite in size and shape as well as firm and completely solid” and that they “existed in a void moving about combining and recombining” (European Graduate School). Later on, a…

Chapter Six: Completing the Table…with a Bang 1. What is the difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb? (1 mark) The difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb is that a nuclear bomb is designed to destroy organisms using heat and impact, while a dirty bomb is designed to kill with gamma radiation. Radiation from dirty bombs, besides burning through skin, also alters the DNA in bone marrows, which significantly weakens the body’s immune system, and…

The atomic number for Neon is 10, keeping in mind that the atomic number is the number of protons in an element. The atomic mass of Neon is 20.180, which when rounded up will become an atomic mass of 20. The state of matter Neon is mainly in is a gaseous state. The full electron configuration of neon is 1s2 2s2 2p6, and the abbreviated electron configuration…

The element Titanium is a very light metal and it’s in the periodic table group 4. This element is a transition metal and the symbol is Ti. The color of titanium is a silver grey and white color. The atomic mass is 47.867 and atomic number is 22. This element however is resistant to chlorine, and sea water. It has 22 electrons, 22 protons, and 26 neutrons. The density is 4.54 The discoverer who found titanium is William Gregor a Mineralogist. The year it was discovered was in 1791. Where it had…

element on our Periodic Table. It is a chemical element, it has a density of 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. Cobalt has a boiling point of 3,100 degrees Celsius (5,600 degrees Fahrenheit). Cobalt’s symbol is Co, The atomic # is 27 so the protons and electrons are 27 as well. Cobalt has an atomic mass of 59 and 32 neutrons. The melting point is 2,719 degrees Fahrenheit. This element was discovered in 1735 by a Swedish chemist, Georg Brandt. Brandt was the first person to discover a metal…

Albina Contreras and Karla Santos Title: Interpreting the Periodic Table Date: 12-18-14 Subject: Honors Chemistry / Period 5 Introduction: The periodic table is a table of the chemical elements in which the elements are arranged by order of a atomic number. The periodic table also has a special name for its vertical columns. Each column is called a group. The elements in each group have the same number of electrons in the outer orbital. Those outer electrons are also called valence…

Sam Kean, a Washington D.C. writer with works in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, The Believer, Air & Space, Science, and The New Scientist, has created a user-friendly book about how to explain the periodic table and the elements that occupy it by writing the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. He provides an insight into the world of chemistry that relates to his audience, even…

an atom is the proton. The proton is a very important part of an atom, because the atomic number of an atom is equivalent to the number of protons that that atom has. Additionally, the mass of an atom is equal to the sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons of that atom. The number of electrons that an atom has is also equal to the number of protons that that atom has.…