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Chapter 4
“Atomic Structure”

Section 4.1 Defining the Atom
 OBJECTIVES:
Describe Democritus’s ideas
about atoms.

 OBJECTIVES:
Explain Dalton’s atomic
theory.

 OBJECTIVES:
Identifywhat instrument is
used to observe individual
atoms.

 The Greek philosopher Democritus (460
B.C. – 370 B.C.) was among the first to
suggest the existence of atoms (from
the Greek word “atomos”)
 He believed that atoms were indivisible and
indestructible
 His ideas did agree with later scientific
theory, but did not explain chemical
behavior, and was not based on the
scientific method – but just philosophy

Dalton’s Atomic Theory (experiment based!)
1) All elements are composed of
tiny indivisible particles called
atoms
2) Atoms of the same element are
identical. Atoms of any one
John Dalton element are different from
(1766 – 1844) those of any other element.
3) Atoms of different elements combine in
simple whole-number ratios to form
chemical compounds
4) In chemical reactions, atoms are combined,
separated, or rearranged – but never
changed into atoms of another element.

Sizing up the Atom
 Elements are able to be subdivided into
smaller and smaller particles – these are
the atoms, and they still have properties
of that element
If you could line up 100,000,000
copper atoms in a single file, they
would be approximately 1 cm long
Despite their small size, individual
atoms are observable with instruments
such as scanning tunneling (electron)
microscopes

Section 4.2
Structure of the Nuclear Atom
 OBJECTIVES:
Identify
three types of
subatomic particles.

Section 4.2
 OBJECTIVES:
Describe the structure of
atoms, according to the
Rutherford atomic model.

Section 4.2
 One change to Dalton’s atomic
theory is that atoms are divisible
into subatomic particles:
 Electrons

 Protons

 Neutrons

Discovery of the Electron
In 1897, J.J. Thomson used a cathode ray
tube to deduce the presence of a negatively
charged particle: the electron

Modern Cathode Ray Tubes

Television Computer Monitor

Cathode ray tubes pass electricity
through a gas that is contained at a
very low pressure.

Mass of the Electron
Mass of the
electron is
9.11 x 10-28 g

The oil drop apparatus

1916 – Robert Millikan determines the mass
of the electron: 1/1840 the mass of a
hydrogen atom; has one unit of negative
charge

Conclusions from the Study
of the Electron:
a) Cathode rays have identical properties
regardless of the element used to
produce them. All elements must contain
identically charged electrons.
b) Atoms are neutral, so there must be
positive particles in the atom to balance
the negative charge of the electrons
c) Electrons have so little mass that atoms
must contain other particles that account
for most of the mass

Conclusions from the Study
of the Electron:
 Eugen Goldstein in 1886 observed
what is now called the “proton” -
particles with a positive charge, and
a relative mass of 1 (or 1840 times
that of an electron)
 1932 – James Chadwick confirmed
the existence of the “neutron” – a
particle with no charge, but a mass
nearly equal to a proton

Subatomic Particles
Particle Charge Mass (g) Location

Electron
(e-) -1 9.11 x 10-28 Electron
cloud

Proton
(p+) +1 1.67 x 10-24 Nucleus
Neutron
(no) 0 1.67 x 10-24 Nucleus

Thomson’s Atomic Model

J. J. Thomson
Thomson believed that the electrons
were like plums embedded in a
positively charged “pudding,” thus it
was called the “plum pudding” model.

Ernest Rutherford’s
Gold Foil Experiment - 1911

Alpha particles are helium nuclei -
The alpha particles were fired at a thin
sheet of gold foil
 Particles that hit on the detecting
screen (film) are recorded

Rutherford’s problem:
In the following pictures, there is a target
hidden by a cloud. To figure out the shape of
the target, we shot some beams into the cloud
and recorded where the beams came out. Can
you figure out the shape of the target?

Target Target
#1 #2

The Answers:

Target #1 Target #2

Rutherford’s Findings
 Most of the particles passed right through
 A few particles were deflected
 VERY FEW were greatly deflected
“Like howitzer shells bouncing
off of tissue paper!”

Conclusions:
a) The nucleus is small
b) The nucleus is dense
c) The nucleus is positively
charged

The Rutherford Atomic Model
 Based on his experimental evidence:
 The atom is mostly empty space
 All the positive charge, and almost all
the mass is concentrated in a small area
in the center. He called this a “nucleus”
 The nucleus is composed of protons
and neutrons (they make the nucleus!)
 The electrons distributed around the
nucleus, and occupy most of the volume
 His model was called a “nuclear model”

Section 4.3
Distinguishing Among Atoms
 OBJECTIVES:
Explain what makes
elements and isotopes
different from each other.

Section 4.3
 OBJECTIVES:
Calculate the number of
neutrons in an atom.

Section 4.3
 OBJECTIVES:
Calculatethe atomic mass of
an element.

Section 4.3
 OBJECTIVES:
Explain why chemists use
the periodic table.

Atomic Number
 Atoms are composed of identical
protons, neutrons, and electrons
 How then are atoms of one element
different from another element?
 Elements are different because they
contain different numbers of PROTONS
 The “atomic number” of an element is
the number of protons in the nucleus
# protons in an atom = # electrons

Atomic Number
Atomic number (Z) of an element is
the number of protons in the nucleus
of each atom of that element.
Element # of protons Atomic # (Z)

Carbon 6 6

Phosphorus 15 15

Gold 79 79

Mass Number
Mass number is the number of protons
and neutrons in the nucleus of an
isotope: Mass # = p+ + n0

Nuclide p+ n0 e- Mass #
Oxygen - 18 8 10 8 18

Arsenic - 75 33 42 33 75

Phosphorus - 31 15 16 15 31

Complete Symbols
 Contain the symbol of the element,
the mass number and the atomic
number.
Superscript →
Mass

X
number

Subscript →
Atomic
number

Symbols
Find each of these:
a) number of protons
b) number of 80
neutrons
35 Br
c) number of
electrons
d) Atomic number
e) Mass Number

Symbols
If an element has an atomic
number of 34 and a mass
number of 78, what is the:
a) number of protons
b) number of neutrons
c) number of electrons
d) complete symbol

Symbols
If an element has 91
protons and 140 neutrons
what is the
a) Atomic number
b) Mass number
c) number of electrons
d) complete symbol

Symbols
If an element has 78
electrons and 117 neutrons
what is the
a) Atomic number
b) Mass number
c) number of protons
d) complete symbol

Isotopes
 Dalton was wrong about all
elements of the same type
being identical
 Atoms of the same element can
have different numbers of
neutrons.
 Thus, different mass numbers.
 These are called isotopes.

Isotopes
 Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
proposed the idea of isotopes in
1912
 Isotopes are atoms of the same element
having different masses, due to varying
numbers of neutrons.
 Soddy won the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry in 1921 for his work with
isotopes and radioactive materials.

Naming Isotopes
 We can also put the mass
number after the name of the
element:
carbon-12

carbon-14

uranium-235

Isotopes are atoms of the same element having
different masses, due to varying numbers of
neutrons.
Isotope Protons Electrons Neutrons Nucleus
Hydrogen–1
(protium) 1 1 0
Hydrogen-2
(deuterium) 1 1 1

Hydrogen-3 1 1 2
(tritium)

Isotopes
Elements
occur in
nature as
mixtures of
isotopes.
Isotopes are
atoms of the
same element
that differ in
the number of
neutrons.

Atomic Mass
 How heavy is an atom of oxygen?
 It depends, because there are different
kinds of oxygen atoms.
 We are more concerned with the average
atomic mass.
 This is based on the abundance
(percentage) of each variety of that
element in nature.
 We don’t use grams for this mass because
the numbers would be too small.

Measuring Atomic Mass
 Instead of grams, the unit we use
is the Atomic Mass Unit (amu)
 It is defined as one-twelfth the
mass of a carbon-12 atom.
 Carbon-12 chosen because of its isotope purity.
 Eachisotope has its own atomic
mass, thus we determine the
average from percent abundance.

To calculate the average:
 Multiply the atomic mass of
each isotope by it’s
abundance (expressed as a
decimal), then add the
results.
 Ifnot told otherwise, the mass of the
isotope is expressed in atomic mass
units (amu)

Atomic Masses
Atomic mass is the average of all the
naturally occurring isotopes of that
element. Symbol Composition of % in nature
Isotope
the nucleus
Carbon-12 C
12
6 protons 98.89%
6 neutrons
Carbon-13 C
13
6 protons 1.11%
7 neutrons
Carbon-14 C
14
6 protons <0.01%
8 neutrons

Carbon = 12.011

- Page 117

Question

Knowns
and
Unknown

Solution
Answer

Section 4.4 – The Periodic Table:
Organizing the Elements
 OBJECTIVES
 Describe the origin of the periodic table

 Identify the position of groups, periods
and the transition metals in the periodic
table

Development of the Periodic Table

Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834 – 1907)
 Listed the elements in
columns in order of
increasing mass
 Then he arranged the
columns so that the
elements with the most
similar properties were
side by side

Periodic Table – an
arrangement of the
elements according
to similarities in
properties

Henry Moseley
(1913)
 Determined atomic
number of the
atoms of elements

The Modern Periodic Table
Period – Horizontal rows of the periodic
table – (side to side)
 There are 7 periods

Periodic law – When the elements are
arranged in order of increasing atomic
number, there is a periodic repetition
of their physical and chemical
properties

The Modern Periodic Table
Group – vertical (up and down) column of
elements in the periodic table
 The elements in any group of the periodic
table have similar physical and chemical
properties
 Each group is identified by a number and
letter A or B
 Group A elements are called representative
elements because they exhibit a wide range
of both physical and chemical properties

Representative Elements
 These elements can be divided into three
broad classes
1. Metals
Characteristics
 High electrical conductivity

 High luster when clean

 Ductile (able to be drawn into wire)

 Malleable (able to be beaten into sheets)

Representative Elements
 With the exception of hydrogen all the
representative elements on the left side of
the periodic table are metals
Group 1A – alkali metals
Group 2A – alkalaine earth metals
 Most of the remaining elements that are
not in Group A are also metals
Transition metals Group B elements
Inner transition metals

Rare Earth metals – the inner transition
metals which appear below the main
body of the periodic table

2. Nonmetals
 Occupy the upper-right corner of the periodic
table
 Non-metals are elements that are generally non
lustrous and poor conductors of electricity
 Many are gases @ room temperature

Ex.) O, Cl
 Others are brittle solids

Ex.) sulfur

2. Nonmetals
 Group 7A = Halogens ex.) Cl, Br

 Group 8A = Noble Gases “inert
gases” - undergo few chemical
changes

3. Metalloids
 border the line between metals and
non metals
 Have properties in between metals and
non metals

Conclusion
 Rather than memorizing more than
100 elements you need to only learn
the general behavior and trends within
the major groups
 This gives you a working knowledge of
the properties of most elements

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