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What Chemistry Is All About
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Itty-Bitty Atoms
When atoms join
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Atoms
Atoms are
teeny-weeny. You
could fit 100
million on the tip
of your little
finger!
They are so
small that no one has ever seen an
atom all by itself.
Atoms are what chemistry is all
about.
Chemistry is the study of substances
and what they are made of. All
substances are made of atoms.
However, you can see lots of atoms
when they are together. In all of
nature, there are more than 100 types
of atoms.
Each type is called an element.
Symbols for atoms
Chemists use symbols to stand for
atoms or elements.
They often use the first letter as the
symbol.
o is the symbol for oxygen. When
two elements begin with the same
letter, a second letter is added.
Ne is the symbol for neon.
Most of the names are based on
Greek or Roman words.
Some are old words that we do not
use today.
Pb is the symbol for lead. It stands
for the word "plumbum."
Atoms all around
When atoms join together, they
make molecules.
Oxygen
Hydrogen
and oxygen
in water
• carbon
.o~gen
• h'ldrogen
When these atoms attach to each other, they
make a chemical molecule called cellulose.
You eat, drink and breathe atoms.
You are quite a mixture of atoms
and molecules. Your body is a
wonderful chemical plant.
What chemists do
Chemists work with
atoms and study how
they interact with each
other.
Chemists also study
substances to discover
which atoms they are
made up of.
Atoms
and you
Your body is
made up of
atoms.
Your hair
and fingernails are
made up of
atoms of
• carbon
• hydrogen
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• sulfur
These atoms make a molecule called
protein.
Your skin is made of atoms of
• carbon • hydrogen
• oxygen • phosphorus
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that led to its creation in 1791. Below are some
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Mary II agreed to protect free
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• strawberry
• arrow
• letter A
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• elephant
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COMPUTERS, SCALES, SCIENCE, METALS, NON-METALS,
CARBON, HYDROGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR,
ATOMS, IRON.
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The Periodic Table
Organizing Atoms
The inventor
In 1834, a Russian scientist and
college professor, Dmitry Mendeleyev
(Duh-MEE-tree Mend-del-LAY-uv),
figured out an important table, or chart.
Mendeleyev discovered that certain
atoms or elements always behaved the
same way when they came in contact with certain other
atoms or elements.
He found that he could group them together according to
how they behaved when compared with each other.
His interest in cards helped him invent the chart. He wrote
the symbols for the elements on cards and spread them out.
Thday, no chemist would be without the periodic table!
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A chemist checks out her periodic table. You will find these
charts on display in most chemistry labs. Many chemists have
the table in their computers.
The periodic table is a list of all of the elements arranged in
rows and columns.
All of the elements in the
---,--vertical columns (up and
H
down) are alike in some ways.
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All of the elements in the
horizontal rows (left to right)
are about the same size.
How chemists use the table
Chemistry is the study of how
elements or atoms i.nteract with
each other.
By using the periodic table, a
chemist can tell:
• ifone
substance will
mix with another
substance.
• how much of a
substance to mix
together to get
another substance.
• what will
happen when
they do mix.
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Li
Be
11
12
Na Mg
19
The periodic
table
210
21
K
Ca Sc
37
38
Rb Sr
55
Cs
17
Fr
311
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23
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Cr Mn Fe Co Ni CU
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42
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43
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75
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72
Hf
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104
105
106
107
Ra
89
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Zn
48
He
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7
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10
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Ne
13
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15
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31
32
Ga Ge
49
50
P
33
S
34
73
77
Ir
78
Pt
79
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82
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Au Hg n
Pb
17
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Ar
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Br Kr
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Most of the
elements in
the periodic
table are
metals.
The bold
line divides
the metals
from the
non-metals.
The numbers at the top are called the atomic numbers. The letters
are symbols for the chemicals. The tables have other elements
and numbers, but we left them out to save space.
Here are some everyday things and some of the elements from
which they are made. Can you find them on the periodic table? We
have given the item, the chemical and the symbol.
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Table salt
• sodium: Na
• chlorine: CI
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Glass
• silicon: Si
• oxygen:
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Water
• hydrogen: H
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Sugar
Chalk
• carbon: C
• hydrogen: H
• calcium: Ca
• carbon: C
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Matches
• sulfur: S
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Knives, forks,
spoons
• iron: Fe
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Pencil points
• carbon: C
Toothpaste
• fluorine: F
Coins from ...
• nickel: Ni
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Teacher's
Guide
For use by teachers and parents at home and at
school. For use with issue: Itty-Bitty Atoms
Main idea: 'Ib celebrate National Chemistry Week, this issue is about chemistry and the periodic
table. The following is a list of activities to be used with this issue. They are listed in order of
difficulty, with the easier pre-reader assignments listed first. Ask the children to do the following:
1. Find the following pictures: a scientist, a tree, Alpha Betty reading a book, a sugar bowl, a
tube of toothpaste, a pencil, a boy holding two glasses, a set of silverware, a saltshaker, matches,
three coins.
2. Draw a picture of yourself dressed as a scientist.
3. What are atoms? What part do they play in our world? Why is it important to know about
science? Would you like to be a scientist? If so, what would you like to study? What do you think
scientists of the future will study?
4. Answer the following questions:
a. Who is Dmitry Mendeleyev and what did he do?
b. What is chemistry?
c. How big are atoms?
5. When a teacher calls out a symbol from the periodic table, give the common name for that
element.
6. What are your hair and fingernails made of? What are the symbols for these elements?
7. Post the periodic table in a place that is easy to read. Study it to learn about the elements
and their symbols.
8. Find the following words: atom, professor, symbol, element, molecule, contact, calcium,
metals, interact, lab. Define and make up a new sentence for each one.
9. Look through your newspaper for articles on science.
10. Do further research on the periodic table.
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