The Quest for Gold: 1. Where does gold get its identity?
2. What makes gold unique?
3. How much gold is in a full truckload of dirt?
4. About what fraction of the elements are metals?
5. What are a few example symbols of the “noble” metals?
The Sound of Bronze:
6. What are some uses for copper?
7. What properties make copper useful?
8. When tin and copper are mixed together, they make?
9. What does the quality of a bronze bell’s sound depend upon?
10. What role do tin in atoms play in producing the appropriate sound in a bronze bell?
Atomic Zoom:
11. How many “times” do we have to zoom in the bronze to see an atom?
12. What size would an atom be if the bronze sample was the size of the United States?
13. In terms of atomic structure, what is a crystal?
14. How does a crystal of bronze appear at the level of atoms?
15. What about atoms determines “what” an element is called?
The Periodic Table:
16. What are the classifications of the elements in the green section, the blue section and the orange section of the periodic table?
17. What does pure “calcium” look like?
18. Where might you find the element “bismuth” in the grocery store?
19. Where might you find the element “bromine” in the grocery store?
20. The colorful orange “fiesta ware” contains the radioactive element called.
21. How are “families” arranged on the periodic table___.
22. As we go to the right on the periodic table the elements become__.
23. How does the table get its shape?
24. Where does the term,” noble” gas come from?
25. What is an “inert” gas?
26. What do electrons “rule”?
27. How many electrons make an atom a “happy” atom?
28. Why was chlorine used as a poison gas in World War I?
29. What general electron structure characterizes the alkali metals?
30. What is sodium “desperate” to do?
31. What happens when sodium “dumps its electron in water”?
32. What happens when explosive sodium metal gives its electron to poisonous chlorine gas?
33. What effect does a “full shell” have on these two atoms?