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Q1
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What is the first element in the periodic table of elements?
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Q2
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Air, fire, and water have been referred to as elements for thousands of years, but in chemistry they are referred to as what?
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Q3
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Fe is the chemical symbol for what element?
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Q4
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An element’s atomic number is also its number of what?
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Q5
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In WWII, both sides attempted to make fighter planes out of this metal but halted production because it was highly flammable. What elemental metal was it?
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Q6
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As humans, we naturally crave sodium chloride (NaCl) to put on our food. Sodium chloride is more commonly know as what edible compound?
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Q7
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Made famous by the show Breaking Bad, Hg(CNO)2 is an incredibly unstable explosive (unless it is water, which makes it stable). What is this unstable explosive known as?
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Q8
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Helium, Aragon, Neon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon are know as noble gases and are completely stable elements. What makes these elements stable?
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Q9
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Oxidization occurs when an element loses one or more electrons when coming into contact with another substance. When iron oxidizes, it turns brown; (rust) when copper oxidizes it turns green (like the statue of liberty). What color does silver turn when it oxidizes?
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Q10
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Thermite (Fe2O3 + 2 Al = 2 Fe + Al2O3) is an incredibly flammable substance capable of reaching temperatures of up to?
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