Beanium Lab Review

This lab was meant to teach us how to calculate percent abundance and other calculations made on isotopes. Doing this helped me understand what each formulation did to help me understand the element. The ability to not only visualize but interact with the so called isotopes actually kept the formulas and the idea of isotopes in my head that much more. This really helped out for the test we took.

Atomic Theory and Nuclear Chemistry

Dalton Theory really makes you think about the past and how much information was actually possible to find out with out the equipment we have today. Although Dalton was not accurate on some of his ideas, he was actually fairly on point. JJ Thompson however got a little closer with his availability to use science. He discovered negatively charged particle that we know as an Electron. Then his student Rutherford discovered the positively charged center that we know as the Nucleus. While these finding may be a little far from our current model the Cloud model they were major breakthroughs in their time.

What has Nomenclature done for me?

Nomenclature has made understanding names and formulas of elements that used to be a complete alien language to me to actually not be that far from earth. I now understand why names are different and even extremely long. For example like Di-hydrogen Phosphate no longer out of my reach to understand, because I now understand that the word prefixes and other aspects mean. So I know that Di means 2 Hydrogen atoms and Phosphate means it is 1 Phosphorus atoms with 4 Oxygen atoms.

My last test in Pre-AP Chemistry has shown I have grown in all of my recent standards, although I am still lagging behind in my mastery of the first section. I have been able to understand polyatomic ions fairly well, but I am still not having the easiest time with making sure I am not over complicating a name when it should just be something really simple. I think this is because of how many different names I have seen and all the variations that I can barely predict. I really need to work on using what information is given to me and not trying to rely off of information that I think is correct based on different questions.