The Creation of Chemistry

Question 1

Equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, _____

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have the same number of molecules

Question 2

Lagrange stated "It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but ...

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France may not produce another like it in a century."

Question 3

The Law of Conservation of Mass used to be called _____

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Lavoisier's Law

Question 4

Before Lavoisier, it was thought that flammable substances contained an element called _____

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phlogiston

Question 5

Lavoisier determined that if all the particles of a reaction are collected, the mass _____

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stays the same

Question 6

Lavoisier couldn't have done any of his magnificent measurements had it not been for his _____

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enormous wealth

Question 7

The law that a compound always contains the same proportions of elements is now called _____

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the Law of Definite Proportions

Question 8

Carbon and oxygen react to form two different compounds: _____

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carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide

Question 9

Prior to Lavoisier, early experimenters noticed that when you burned something its mass _____

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decreased

Question 10

Among many other accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier named the elements _____

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hydrogen and oxygen

Question 11

As his father expected, Lavoisier became licensed to practice _____

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law

Question 12

Dalton noticed that when two elements combine to form more than one compound, _____

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their quantities are relatable by small whole number ratios

Question 13

Lavoisier, a tax collector and a supporter of the French Revolution, was _____

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beheaded in 1794

Question 14

Gay-Lussac published a paper indicating that somehow, _____ was splitting into two pieces

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oxygen

Question 15

Avogadro basically figured out how to weigh atoms and molecules, as long as they _____

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were gaseous

Question 16

Which chemist has his own number, maybe the most important number in chemistry?

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Avogadro

Question 17

Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto is often just called _____

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Amadeo Avogadro

Question 18

Dalton used multiplication to become the first person to have real data supporting _____

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the idea of atoms

Question 19

Lavoisier named the lightest element "hydrogen" because it was generated from _____

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water

Question 20

Among many other accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier, _____

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published the very first chemistry textbook

Question 21

Who noticed that carbon and oxygen, when reacted, would form two different proportions?

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John Dalton

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