Chapter 11
If a gram of antimatter meets a kilogram of matter, the amount of mass to survive is
999 grams
Which of the following statements is true?
Molecules are the smallest subdivision of matter that still retain a substance's chemical properties
All atoms that make up a newborn baby were manufactured in
ancient stars
Which if the following is a mixture
cake air granite beach sand
Heavy atoms are appreciably larger in size than light atoms because the nuclei of heavy atoms have more
electric charge
Which is the lightest particle?
electron
The chemical properties of matter is due mostly to its
electrons
The volume of matter is mostly due to its
electrons
The air in this room has
energy wight mass
A granite block is mostly empty space because the atoms in the granite are
mostly empty space themselves
Mass number refers to the number of
nucleons in the nucleus
The number of protons in a neutral atom is balanced by an equal number of
orbital electrons
Brownian motion is caused by
particles larger than atoms bumping into them
The mass of matter is due mostly to its
protons
Which is the smallest particle?
quark
Atoms can be photographed by
scanning of electron microscopes electron beams
If we doubled the magnifying power of the most powerful optical microscope, we would
still not be able to see or photograph an atom
Compared to the energy it takes to separate oxygen and hydrogen from water, the amount of energy released when they recombine is
the same
Atoms heavier than helium were at one time manufactured by
thermonuclear fusion