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    The determination of gold besides gravimetry can either be titrimetry or instrumental, but these techniques requires gold standards for comparison of its results and concerns the determination of gold in small scale or trace amounts like that of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The demand for gold is rapidly icreasing world wide and as of today, the standard test for its determination is Fire Assay ASTM E 1335-08 – a method that requires expertise, time, and can lead to a decrease in the sample’s

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    Why? Democritus was influenced by Leucippus, Anaximander and Leucippus who are all philosophers. Democritus was an influential Ancient Greek philosopher himself and was primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. What part of the Atomic Theory did they investigate? Democritus focused on the Atom side of things, according to Democritus, atoms differ in form, size and arrangement, depending on the specific type of substance they produce. Large objects, for

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    Ancient Atomic Theory & John Dalton Many people struggled to understand the nature of matter. Some said it was made of water and some said it was fire. A few others believed that whatever matter was made of, it must be something that could not be destroyed. Atomic theory attempts to answer what all things are made of. It states that all matter is composed of extremely small particles called atoms. The word atom meant "indivisible" in Greek and was first used by Democritus, a Greek philosopher (Similar

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    is a mixed oxide of both Cu and Mn. Cu and Mn both belong to transition metal category with atomic numbers 29 and 25 respectively. Oxides of Cu and Mn are not at all toxic in nature and are environmental benign. Also they are less costly compared to other metal oxides. Copper oxides always show better reactivity and Manganese oxides have the ability to change to various oxidation states. Cu has atomic mass of both Cu and Mn oxides separately have showed high reactivity being an oxygen carrier, but

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    “What is the world made of?” That question has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries. The atomic theory was first proposed in ancient Greece around 400 BC and has continued to evolve through the centuries to finally evolve into the current theory we have today. We now know that the subatomic particles that make up the atom are no longer the fundamental particles of the universe because even they are made of smaller particles called “quarks.” The continuous study of atoms will allow us

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    Unit Number 1 – Fundamentals of Science P1 – Task 1a ELEMENT SYMBOL GROUP PERIOD BLOCK ATOMIC NUMBER ATOMIC MASS Sodium Na 1 3 S 11 23 Potassium K 1 4 S 19 39 Calcium Ca 2 4 S 20 40 Magnesium Mg 2 3 S 12 24 Carbon C 4 2 P 6 12 Oxygen O 6 2 P 8 16 Nitrogen N 5 2 P 7 14 Fluorine F 7 2 P 9 19 Chlorine Cl 7 3 P 17 35 Iron Fe Transition block 4 D 26 56 Hydrogen H Sits on top of group 1 1 S 1 1 Sodium S 6 3 P 16 32 The periodic table is a table that categorises and displays all of the chemical elements

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    plant? 4. You make the following measurements of an object – 22 kg and 42 m3. What would the object’s density be? Show your work for credit and include final units. I believe I need to divide the object mass by its volume. This value is the object 's density and expresses it in units of mass per unit of volume for 22kg mass that takes up a volume of 42 cubic meters. The density is 0.52 kilogram per cubic meter 5. Explain why a chlorinated swimming pool

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    NUCLEAR FISSION INTRODUCTION Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, two German chemists discovered the process of nuclear fission on 17th December, 1938. However, it was theoretically explained later by two Austrian-British physicists, Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch in the 1939. Nuclear fission is the process by which a heavy nucleus disintegrates or decays into two lighter nuclei of slightly similar weights when they absorb slow moving neutrons known as thermal neutrons. The nuclei

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    imagined” (1). On July 16, 1945, the first successful detonation of the atomic bomb was witnessed in Los Alamos, New Mexico. America had crossed the finish line first. A secret project, the Manhattan Project, had hurriedly worked on successfully creating the atomic bomb before Nazi Germany had, using world-renowned physicists to get the job done efficiently. On August 6, 1945, the United States of America used the atomic

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