Alchemy and chemistry (in class)

Where are the chemical elements listed?

• Elements table

• Periodic table

Which appeared first, Alchemy or chemistry?

• Alchemy

• Chemistry

One stone, calles the stone that burns was crucial for alchemy, what elements was is made of?

• Gold

• Silver

• Sulfur

What was the famous liquid metal?

• Gold

• Silver

• Sulfur

• Mercury

´“Transmutation” is the key word characterizing alchemy, and it may be understood in several ways: in the changes that are called chemical, in physiological changes such as passing from sickness to health, in a hoped-for transformation from old age to youth, or even in passing from an earthly to a supernatural existence.

• True

• False

What were the great human "goods"?

• ´wealth

• longevity

• immortality

• All the above

´The alchemical theory came to focus on the idea that there exists a substance that can bring the desired transformation instantly or magically.

• True

• False

The philosophers's stone was a real stone

• True

• False

´In everyday life, you do chemistry when you cook, when you use cleaning detergents to wipe off your counter, when you take medicine or when you dilute concentrated juice so that the taste isn't as intense.

• True

• False

´According to the ACS, chemistry is the study of matter, defined as anything that has mass and takes up space, and the changes that matter can undergo when it is subject to different environments and conditions.

• True

• False