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By experimenting with gases John Dalton discovered that the pressure of a mixture of gases came from the sum of particles that each gas had. Those particles were atoms.

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By experimenting with gases John Dalton discovered that the pressure of a mixture of gases came from the sum of particles that each gas had. Those particles were atoms.

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1) All matter is made of atoms. Atoms are indivisible and indestructible. 2) Compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms.

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the charge was always a multiple of -1.6 x 10 -19 C, the charge on a single electron when it passes the plate and then becomes ionized when hitting the air inside.

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Equation for the experiment is
QxE=mxg
E= electrical field
m= mass of drop
g= acceleration due to gravity
Q= charge on drop

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They suspended tiny charged droplets of oil between two metal electrodes by balancing downward gravitational force with upward drag and electric forces.

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- James Chadwick was assigned the task of tracking down evidence of Rutherford's tightly bound "proton-electron pair" or neutron
-  In 1930 it was discovered that Beryllium, when bombarded by alpha particles, emitted a very energetic stream of radiation.

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-In the 1870s Goldstein undertook his own investigations of discharge tubes, and named the light emissions studied by others  cathode rays.
-He found that cathode rays were emitted perpendicularly from a metal surface, and carried energy.

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A neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n^0, with no net electric charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. Protons and neutrons constitute the nuclei of atom.

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 Rutherford shot a ray of positive alpha particles to a sheet of foil which caused the particles to deflect

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 Rutherford shot a ray of positive alpha particles to a sheet of foil which caused the particles to deflect

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Robert Millikan did this by balancing the electric and gravitational forces acting on a charged oil drop in a magnetic field. If the top plate is positively charged and the drop has an excess of electrons, the drop will be attracted to the upper plate. The voltage can be varied so that the gravitational force is just balanced by the electric force.

Using an atomiser he generated oil droplets above two parallel plates. The droplets fell through a small hole in the upper, isolated plate to the space between the plates and observed from one side through a microscope. The droplets acquired charge by exposing them to X – Rays, and thus experience an electric force when they entered the region between the plates

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" Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment proved the existance of a small massive center to atoms, which would later be known as the nucleus of an atom."

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After World War I, many of the great minds of the early twentieth century returned from military endeavours to scientific research. One such scientist, Ernest Rutherford, returned from helping the English track down German U-Boats to carry out one of the most important experiments in chemistry. Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment proved the existance of a small massive center to atoms, which would later be known as the nucleus of an atom.

Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden carried out their Gold Foil Experiment to observe the effect of alpha particles on matter. Rutherford devised a way to record the location of the alpha particles by surrounding the bombarded object with a sheet coated in ZnS, which would emit of flash of light when hit with an alpha particle. Through previous experiments of shooting alpha particles, Rutherford knew they had considerable mass and speed. He then hypothisized that these particles would penetrate a thin metal foil, although they may scatter slightly because of the charge in the metal atom's subatomic particles. After shooting alpha particles through the thin sheet of gold, Geiger, Marsden and Rutherford discovered that a small porportion of the molecules were scattered at larger than 90° angles. This caused them to conclude that there was a small fraction of the total volume of the atom that held most of the mass of the atom.

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After World War I, many of the great minds of the early twentieth century returned from military endeavours to scientific research. One such scientist, Ernest Rutherford, returned from helping the English track down German U-Boats to carry out one of the most important experiments in chemistry.

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"They deduced this by measuring how an alpha particle beam is scattered when it strikes a thin metal foil. The experiments were performed between 1908 and 1913 by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden under the direction of Ernest Rutherford at the Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester."

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Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment - Backstage Science

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Ernest Rutherford's famous gold foil experiment involves the scattering of alpha particles as they pass through a thin gold foil. It led to a better understanding of the structure of atoms. It's also known as the Geiger--Marsden experiment, after Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden who performed it under Rutherford's supervision.

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In 1899 Ernest Rutherford studied the absorption of radioactivity by thin sheets of metal foil and found two components: alpha (a) radiation, which is absorbed by a few thousandths of a centimeter of metal foil, and beta (b) radiation, which can pass through 100 times as much foil before it was absorbed. Shortly thereafter, a third form of radiation, named gamma (g) rays, was discovered that can penetrate as much as several centimeters of lead. The three kinds of radiation also differ in the way they are affected by electric and magnetic fields, as shown below.

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James Chadwick Cartoon: Discovery of the Neutron

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In 1886 Eugen Goldstein noted that cathode-ray tubes with a perforated cathode emit a glow from the end of the tube near the cathode. Goldstein concluded that in addition to the electrons, or cathode rays, that travel from the negatively charged cathode toward the positively charged anode, there is another ray that travels in the opposite direction, from the anode toward the cathode. Because these rays pass through the holes, or channels, in the cathode, Goldstein called them canal rays.
When the cathode of a cathode-ray tube was perforated, Goldstein observed rays he called "canal rays," which passed through the holes, or channels, in the cathode to strike the glass walls of the tube at the end near the cathode.  Since these canal rays travel in the opposite direction from the cathode rays, they must carry the opposite charge.

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James Chadwick conducted a series of experiments that would prove the existence of neutrons.
Although we now know that there are protons, neutrons, and
electrons in an atom. In Chadwick's time most of this was
still being experimented upon. In the beginning the
experiments he did were to prove that if alpha particles
fell on light elements such as beryllium, boron,and lithium gamma radiation. Chadwick's hypothesis was correct, it wasn't gamma radiation but rather a beam of neutrons.

Chadwick's experiment included projecting alpha
particles toward Beryllium. The
emitted particles after enduring the Beryllium target
(becomes neutrons) and fall on the paraffin wax.The paraffin
wax in turn releases another type of particle (protons).
At that time atoms were thought to be made up of protons
and electrons.

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a high-vacuum tube in which cathode rays produce a luminous image on a fluorescent screen, used chiefly in televisions and computer terminals.

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The Millikan experiment was conducted by Robert Millikan to determine the size of the charge of an electron. This also determined the  smallest 'unit' charge, or that charge is 'quantized'.

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Millikan's oil drop experiment to determine charge of an electron - Chemistry

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This chemistry video for Grade 10-11 students demonstrates R. A. Millikan's oil drop experiment to calculate the charge of an electron.

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Uploaded by Brandon Cruickshank on 2015-10-21.

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In 1886 Eugen Goldstein noted that cathode-ray tubes with a perforated cathode emit a glow from the end of the tube near the cathode. Goldstein concluded that in addition to the electrons, or cathode rays, that travel from the negatively charged cathode toward the positively charged anode, there is another ray that travels in the opposite direction, from the anode toward the cathode.

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A German physicist working at the Physics Institute of the Strasbourg University (from 1895-1918) developed the first cold Cathode Ray tube with magnetically beam deflection.He used a diaphragm and a mica screen covered with phosphor to produce a visible spot.

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The Cathode Ray Tube site, Cathode Ray Tubes.

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Historical information about the Cathode Ray Tube including real instruments.

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Model of Chadwick's experiment to find the existence of neutral particles.

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1. consists of several elements
2. vacuum sealed to keep air out of it.
3.  one side of the inside of the tube there's a cathode and an anode.
4. cathode is a negatively-charged conductor
5. anode is a positively-charged conductor.
6. Electrons, which have a negative charge, flow off the cathode and are attracted towards the anode.
7. small hole in the anode helps electrons go through and create a beam of electrons.
8. On the opposite side of the tube is a coating that glows when struck by the electrons. This allowed J. J. Thomson to see where the electron beam was hitting.

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Cathode Ray Tubes in Your Home

You might have used a cathode ray tube even if you've never even heard of it until reading this lesson. Before LCD and Plasma TVs became commonplace, most people used bulkier cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions. The CRT in a television is used to display images on your screen. However, cathode ray tubes have been used for more than entertainment. It was cathode ray tubes that allowed the English physicist J.J. Thomson to discover the existence of electrons in 1897.

How Cathode Ray Tubes Work

Before we see how J.J. Thomson used the cathode ray tube to discover the electron, we need to know how a cathode ray tube works. We'll look at a basic CRT like what J.J. Thomson would've used, as seen in the diagram below.

The CRT consists of several elements starting with a tube that's vacuum sealed to keep air out of it. On one side of the inside of the tube there's a cathode and an anode. The cathode is a negatively-charged conductor, and the anode is a positively-charged conductor. Electrons, which have a negative charge, flow off the cathode and are attracted towards the anode. A small hole in the anode allows some electrons to pass through it, creating a beam of electrons. On the opposite side of the tube is a coating that glows when struck by the electrons. This allowed J. J. Thomson to see where the electron beam was hitting.

Of course, before his experiment, we didn't know electrons existed. So, no one was calling it an electron beam. Instead, what flowed off the cathode toward the anode were called 'cathode rays.' Hence the name cathode ray tube.

The Three Experiments

J.J. Thomson's discovery of electrons didn't happen all at once. Instead, it was a result that was slowly built towards over the course of three different experiments. Before Thomson's experiments, it had already been discovered that the cathode rays deposit an electric charge. This was done by putting an electrometer at the opposite end from the cathode and anode. When the cathode rays hit the electrometer, it measured an electric charge.

The first experiment was done in order to see if the charge was separate from the cathode rays. Thomson used a magnet to bend the cathode rays away from the electrometers. When he did this, he discovered that the electrometers stopped measuring electric charge. From this he deduced that the electric charge and the cathode rays must be combined together and not separate entities.

Next, J.J. Thomson set out to determine if the charge carried by the cathode rays was negative or positive. To do this he would use an electric field. He put a negatively charged metal plate on one side of the cathode rays let out past the anode, and a positively charged metal plate on the other side. Instead of an electrometer at one end of the CRT he now had a fluorescent coating that would glow where the cathode ray hit it. When the charged metal plates were introduced he found that the cathode rays bent toward the positive plate and away from the negative plate. This showed that the charge carried by the cathode rays was negative.

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You might have used a cathode ray tube even if you've never even heard of it until reading this lesson. Before LCD and Plasma TVs became commonplace, most people used bulkier cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions. The CRT in a television is used to display images on your screen.

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Halfway down the tube were two electric plates, producing a positive a node and a negative cathode, which he hoped would deflect the rays. As he expected, the rays were deflected by the electric charge, proving beyond doubt that the rays were made up of charged particles carrying a negative charge.

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The results of this experiment gave Rutherford the means to arrive at two conclusions: one, an atom was much more than just empty space and scattered electrons and two, an atom must have a positively charged center that contains most of its mass (which Rutherford termed as the nucleus).

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1.Dalton based his theory on the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition.
2. all atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties.
3.compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.
4.a chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms

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The postulates of Dalton's atomic theory: which points do we still use today, and what have we learned since Dalton?

Dalton's atomic theory was the first complete attempt to describe all matter in terms of atoms and their properties.

Dalton based his theory on the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition.

The first part of his theory states that all matter is made of atoms, which are indivisible.

The second part of the theory says all atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties.

The third part says compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.

The fourth part of the theory states that a chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.

Parts of the theory had to be modified based on the discovery of subatomic particles and isotopes.

Chemists ask questions.

Chemistry is full of unanswered questions. One of the first questions people have been asking since ancient times is What is the world made of?

That is, if we were to zoom in ~100000000000 times-that is 11 zeros!-on the skin of your fingertip, what would we see? Would that look any different from zooming in on, say, an apple? If we then cut up the apple into tinier and tinier pieces using an imaginary tiny knife, would we reach a point where the pieces could no longer be cut any smaller? What would those pieces look like, and would they still have apple properties?

The answers to these questions are fundamental to modern chemistry, and chemists didn't agree on the answer until a few hundred years ago. Thanks to scientists such as John Dalton, modern chemists think of the world in terms of atoms. Even if we can't see atoms with our naked eye, properties of matter such as color, phase (e.g., solid, liquid, gas), and even smell come from interactions on an atomic level. This article will discuss John Dalton's atomic theory, which was the first complete attempt to describe all matter in terms of atoms and their properties.

Basis for Dalton's theory

Dalton based his theory on two laws: the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition.

The law of conservation of mass says that matter is not created or destroyed in a closed system. That means if we have a chemical reaction, the amount of each element must be the same in the starting materials and the products. We use the law of conservation of mass every time we balance equations!

The law of constant composition says that a pure compound will always have the same proportion of the same elements. For example, table salt, which has the molecular formula , contains the same proportions of the elements sodium and chlorine no matter how much salt you have or where the salt came from. If we were to combine some sodium metal and chlorine gas-which I wouldn't recommend doing at home-we could make more table salt which will have the same composition.

Concept check: A time-travelling scientist from the early 1700s decides to run the following experiment: he takes a 10 gram sample of ethanol () and burns it in the presence of oxygen in an open beaker. After the reaction is done, the beaker is empty. Does this result violate the law of conservation of mass?

Dalton's atomic theory

Part 1: All matter is made of atoms.

Dalton hypothesized that the law of conservation of mass and the law of definite proportions could be explained using the idea of atoms. He proposed that all matter is made of tiny indivisible particles called atoms, which he imagined as "solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particle(s)".

It is important to note that since Dalton did not have the necessary instruments to see or otherwise experiment on individual atoms, he did not have any insight into whether they might have any internal structure. We might visualize Dalton's atom as a piece in a molecular modeling kit, where different elements are spheres of different sizes and colors. While this is a handy model for some applications, we now know that atoms are far from being solid spheres.

Part 2: All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties.

Dalton proposed that every single atom of an element, such as gold, is the same as every other atom of that element. He also noted that the atoms of one element differ from the atoms of all other elements. Today, we still know this to be mostly true. A sodium atom is different from a carbon atom. Elements may share some similar boiling points, melting points, and electronegativities, but no two elements have the same exact set of properties.

Part 3: Compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.

In the third part of Dalton's atomic theory, he proposed that compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms. An example of such a compound is table salt. Table salt is a combination of two separate elements with unique physical and chemical properties. The first, sodium, is a highly reactive metal. The second, chlorine, is a toxic gas. When they react, the atoms combine in a 1:1 ratio to form white crystals of , which we can sprinkle on our food.

Since atoms are indivisible, they will always combine in simple whole number ratios. Therefore, it would not make sense to write a formula such as because you can't have half of an atom!

Part 4: A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.

In the fourth and final part of Dalton's atomic theory, he suggested that chemical reactions don't destroy or create atoms. They merely rearranged the atoms. Using our salt example again, when sodium combines with chlorine to make salt, both the sodium and chlorine atoms still exist. They simply rearrange to form a new compound.

What have we learned since Dalton proposed his theory?

The short answer: a lot! For instance, we now know that atoms are not indivisible-as stated in part one-because they are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. The modern picture of an atom is very different from Dalton's "solid, massy" particle. In fact, experiments by Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden showed that atoms are mostly made up of empty space.

Part two of Dalton's theory had to be modified after mass spectrometry experiments demonstrated that atoms of the same element can have different masses because the number of neutrons can vary for different isotopes of the same element. For more on isotopes, you can watch this video on atomic number, mass number, and isotopes.

Despite these caveats, Dalton's atomic theory is still mostly true, and it forms the framework of modern chemistry. Scientists have even developed the technology to see the world on an atomic level!

Dalton's atomic theory was the first complete attempt to describe all matter in terms of atoms and their properties.

Dalton based his theory on the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition.

The first part of his theory states that all matter is made of atoms, which are indivisible.

The second part of the theory says all atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties.

The third part says compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.

The fourth part of the theory states that a chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.

Parts of the theory had to be modified based on the existence of subatomic particles and isotopes.

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Professor Davis briefly describes how John Dalton used the masses of reactants and products in simple chemical reactions to offer the first scientific evidence for the existence of atoms.

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