1. The Structure of the Atom
Chapter 4
The Structure of the Atom

2. Early Ideas About Matter
Section 1
Early Ideas About Matter

3. Section 1: Early Ideas About Matter
The ancient Greeks tried to explain matter, but the scientific study of the atom began with John Dalton in the early 1800s. K
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4. The Roots of Atomic Theory
Many ancient scholars believed matter was composed of such things as earth, water, _________, and _______________.
Many believed matter could be endlessly _________into smaller and smaller pieces.
Early Ideas About Matter

5. Greek Philosophers
Democritus (460–370 B.C.) was the first person to propose the idea that matter was not infinitely divisible, but made up of individual particles called _____________, from which the English word atom is derived.
Aristotle (484–322 B.C.) disagreed with Democritus because he did not believe ____________space could exist.
Aristotle’s views went unchallenged for ______ years until science developed methods to test the validity of his ideas.
Early Ideas About Matter

6. Greek Philosophers Philosopher Ideas Democritus (460–370 B.C.)
Table 1 Ancient Greek Ideas About Matter
Philosopher
Ideas
Democritus
(460–370 B.C.)
Matter is composed of atoms, which move through empty space.
Atoms are solid, homogeneous, indestructible, and indivisible.
Different kinds of atoms have different sizes and shapes.
Size, shape, and movement of atoms determine the properties of matter.
Aristotle
(384–322 B.C.)
Empty space cannot exist.
Matter is made of earth, fire, air, and water.
Early Ideas About Matter

7. Dalton’s Atomic Theory
John Dalton revived the idea of the atom in the early 1800s based on numerous ______________reactions.
Dalton’s _______theory easily explained conservation of mass in a reaction as the result of the combination, separation, or rearrangement of atoms.
Table 2 Dalton’s Atomic Theory
Scientist
Ideas
Dalton
(1766–1844) 
Matter is composed of extremely small particles called atoms.
Atoms are indivisible and indestructible.
Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and chemical properties.
Atoms of a specific element are different from those of another element.
Different atoms combine in simple whole-number ratios to form compounds.
In a chemical reaction, atoms are separated, combined or rearranged.
Early Ideas About Matter

8. Essential Questions
What are the similarities and differences of the atomic models of Democritus, Aristotle, and Dalton?
How was Dalton’s theory used to explain the conservation of mass?
Early Ideas About Matter

9. Section 2
Defining the Atom

10. Section 2: Defining the Atom
An atom is made of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons; electrons move around the nucleus. K
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11. The Atom
The smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of the element is called an _________________________.
An instrument called the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) allows individual _______to be seen.
Defining the Atom

12. The Electron
When an electric charge is applied, a ray of radiation travels from the cathode to the anode, called a _______________ray.
Cathode rays are a stream of particles carrying a negative charge. The particles carrying a negative charge are known as _________________.
This figure below shows a typical cathode ray tube.
Defining the Atom

13. The Electron
J.J. Thomson measured the effects of both magnetic and electric fields on the cathode ray to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle, then compared it to known values.
The mass of the charged particle was much less than a hydrogen atom, then the lightest known atom.
Thomson received the Nobel Prize in 1906 for identifying the first subatomic particle—the _________________.
Defining the Atom

14. The Electron
In the early 1910s, Robert Millikan used the oil-drop apparatus shown below to determine the _____________of an electron.
Defining the Atom

15. the mass of a hydrogen atom
The Electron
Charges change in discrete amounts—1.602 × 10–19 coulombs, the charge of one electron (now equated to a single unit, 1–).
With the electron’s charge and charge-to-mass ratio known, Millikan calculated the mass of a single electron.
the mass of a hydrogen atom
Defining the Atom

16. The Electron
Matter is ______. You know that matter is neutral from everyday experiences. You do not receive an electric shock (except under certain conditions) when you touch an object.
If electrons are negative, then how is matter, which is made up of electrons, neutral?
J.J. Thomson proposed a model of the atom to answer this question.
Defining the Atom

17. The Electron
J.J. Thomson's _______________model of the atom states that the atom is a uniform, positively charged sphere containing _________________.
Defining the Atom

19. The Nucleus
In 1911, Ernest Rutherford studied how positively charged alpha particles interacted with solid matter.
By aiming the particles at a thin sheet of gold _____, Rutherford expected the paths of the alpha particles to be only slightly altered by a collision with an electron.
Defining the Atom

20. The Nucleus
Although most of the alpha particles went through the gold foil, a few of them bounced back, some at large angles.
Defining the Atom

21. The Nucleus Rutherford concluded that atoms are mostly empty space.
Almost all of the atom's positive charge and almost all of its mass is contained in a dense region in the center of the atom called the ____________.
Electrons are held within the atom by their attraction to the positively charged nucleus.
The __________force between the positively charged nucleus and positive alpha particles caused the deflections.
Defining the Atom

22. The Nucleus
Rutherford refined the model to include positively charged particles in the nucleus called __________________.
James Chadwick received the Nobel Prize in 1935 for discovering the existence of _______, neutral particles in the nucleus which accounts for the remainder of an atom’s mass.
Defining the Atom

23. The Nucleus
All atoms are made of _______ fundamental subatomic particles: the electron, the proton, and the __________.
Atoms are __________shaped.
Atoms are mostly _______space, and electrons travel around the nucleus held by an attraction to the positively charged nucleus.
Defining the Atom

24. The Nucleus
Scientists have determined that protons and neutrons are composed of subatomic particles called ________________.
Scientists do not yet understand if or how quarks affect chemical behavior.
Chemical behavior can be explained by considering only an atom's electrons.
Defining the Atom

26. Electron Cloud Model

27. Rutherford VS Electron Cloud
Rutherford model says that whole mass and positive charge of electron is concentrated at its ________. The electrons move around nucleus in elliptical orbit in the same way as planets move around ___________
Modern electron cloud theory says (in addition to above theory ) that trajectory of electron is impossible to determine

28. History of the Atomic Theory

29. Atomic Theory Song

30. Essential Questions What is an atom?
How can the subatomic particles be distinguished in terms of relative charge and mass?
Where are the locations of the subatomic particles within the structure of the atom?
Defining the Atom

31. Section 3
How Atoms Differ

32. Section 3: How Atoms Differ
The number of protons and the mass number define the type of atom. K
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33. 20 thousand billion billion atoms
How small is an atom?
Contains 2 x 1022
20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
20 thousand billion billion atoms

34. Atomic Number
Each element contains a unique positive charge in their nucleus.
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom identifies the element and is known as the element’s _________________number.
How Atoms Differ

35. ____________ Nucleus ______________ Atomic identity Neutron __________
Subatomic particle
Location
Charge
Key feature
____________
Nucleus
______________
Atomic identity
Neutron
__________
Neutral
_____________
Electron cloud
Negative

36. Atomic Number Problem Complete the table at right.
Use with Example Problem 1.
Problem
Complete the table at right.
How Atoms Differ

37. Isotopes and Mass Number
All atoms of a particular element have the same number of protons and electrons but the number of neutrons in the nucleus can differ.
Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are called ____________________.
In nature, most elements are found as mixtures of isotopes. Usually, the relative abundance of each isotope is constant.
Example: In a banana, 93.26% is potassium-39, 6.73% is potassium-41 and 0.01% is potassium-40. In another banana or in a different source of potassium, the percentage composition of the potassium isotopes will still be the same.
Isotopes containing more neutrons have a greater mass.
Isotopes of an atom have the same chemical behavior.
How Atoms Differ

38. Atomic #, Mass #, & Isotopes

39. Isotopes and Mass Number
The _____number is the sum of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
How Atoms Differ

40. Mass of Atoms
One ____________________(amu) is defined as 1/12th the mass of a carbon-12 atom.
One amu is nearly, but not exactly, equal to one proton and one neutron.
How Atoms Differ

41. Mass of Atoms
The _______mass of an element is the weighted average mass of the isotopes of that element.
How Atoms Differ

42. Calculating the mass of an element
The atomic mass is not really a whole number
The atomic mass is the mass of an atom expressed in atomic mass units
Hydrogen has an atomic mass of
Where does this number come from?

43. Calculating the Mass of an Element
The atomic mass is a weighted _________of the masses of all naturally occurring isotopes of the element
Takes into account that not all isotopes are found equally on earth

44. Calculating the mass of an element
There are two different isotopes of copper
Copper-63 (69% of earth’s copper is this type)
Copper-65 (31% of earth’s copper is this type
Steps
Convert percentages into decimals
Multiple decimal value by atomic mass
Add these amounts together to find the mass

45. Calculating the mass of an element
There are two different isotopes of copper
Copper-63 (69% of earth’s copper is this type)
Copper-65 (31% of earth’s copper is this type
Steps
Convert percentages into decimals
69%  0.69
31%  0.31

46. Calculating the mass of an element
There are two different isotopes of copper
Copper-63 (69% of earth’s copper is this type)
Copper-65 (31% of earth’s copper is this type
Steps
Multiple decimal value by atomic mass
(0.69 x 63) = 43.47
(0.31 x 65) = 20.15

47. Calculating the mass of an element
There are two different isotopes of copper
Copper-63 (69% of earth’s copper is this type)
Copper-65 (31% of earth’s copper is this type
Steps
Add these amounts together to find the mass
( ) = amu

48. You try! Steps There are two different isotopes of chlorine
Chlorine-35 (76% of earth’s chlorine is this type)
Chlorine-37 (24% of earth’s chlorine is this type
Steps
Convert percentages into decimals
Multiple decimal value by atomic mass
Add these amounts together to find the mass

49. Essential Questions
How is the atomic number used to determine the identity of an atom?
Why are atomic masses not whole numbers?
Given the mass number and atomic number, how are the number of electrons, protons, and neutrons in an atom calculated?
How Atoms Differ

50. Section 4
How Atoms Differ

51. Section 4: Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay
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52. Radioactivity
Nuclear reactions can change one element into another element.
In the late 1890s, scientists noticed some substances spontaneously emitted radiation, a process they called ___________________.
The rays and particles emitted are called ______________.
A reaction that involves a change in an atom's nucleus is called a ____________________reaction.
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

53. Radioactivity Radioactive Decay
Unstable nuclei lose energy by emitting radiation in a spontaneous process called radioactive _____________________.
Unstable radioactive elements undergo radioactive decay thus forming stable nonradioactive elements.
There are three types of radiation: alpha, _______, and gamma
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

54. Types of Radiation Alpha Radiation
______radiation is made up of positively charged particles called alpha particles.
Each alpha particle contains two protons and two neutrons and has a 2+ charge.
The figure shown below is a nuclear equation showing the radioactive decay of radium-226 to radon-222.
An alpha particle is equivalent to a helium-4 nucleus and is represented by He or α.
Thus, showing mass is conserved in a nuclear equation. 4 2
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

55. Types of Radiation Beta Radiation
______radiation is radiation that has a negative charge and emits beta particles.
Each beta particle is an electron with a 1– charge.
During Beta decay, a neutron is converted to a proton and an electron. The electron is emitted and the proton stays in the nucleus.
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

56. Radiation Deflection
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

57. Types of Radiation Gamma Radiation
Gamma _____are high-energy radiation with no mass and are neutral.
They usually accompany alpha and beta radiation.
Gamma rays account for most of the energy lost during radioactive decay.
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

58. Types of Radiation Nuclear Stability
Atoms that contain too many or two few neutrons are unstable and lose energy through radioactive decay to form a stable nucleus.
Few exist in nature—most have already ___________to stable forms.
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay

59. Essential Questions
What is the relationship between unstable nuclei and radioactive decay?
How are alpha, beta, and gamma radiation characterized in terms of mass and charge?
Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay