PS 10.3 Formative

The conversion of atoms of one element to atoms of another element.

• transmutation

• radioactivity

• ionic bonding

• covalent bonding

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Transmutations can be naturally occurring or artificial.

• true

• false

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Scientist who performed the first artificial transmutation.

• Isaac Newton

• Ernest Rutherford

• Chuck Noland

• Willard Libby

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Elements with atomic numbers greater than uranium (92).

• transuranium elements

• transition elements

• transtable elements

• transatomic elements

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The first transuranium element synthesized in a lab was _____.

• uranium

• unobtanium

• neptunium

• plutonium

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A subatomic particle, smaller than a proton, theorized to be among the basic units of matter.

• quark

• neutron

• spark

• flurb

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___ types of quarks are currently thought to exist.

• 6

• 3

• 200

• 4

Scientists use devices called _______ to bombard nuclei with particles at extremely high speeds.

• particle accelerators

• flux capacitors

• veolcitron machines

• proton packs

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Ernest Rutherford's transmutation experiment (involving nitrogen gas exposed to alpha particles) formed the isotope _____

• oxygen-17

• radon-222

• carbon-14

• uranium-238

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Based on its location on the periodic table, an element that is not naturally occurring is

• terbium (Tb)

• Curium (Cm)

• holmium (Ho)

• lutetium (Lu)