[NATS 1510] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (35 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Textbook: air pollution and global warming, history, science and solutions mark z. Must know how to balance chemical equations. Topic 1: basics and discovery of atmospheric chemicals. Atom: nucleus containing 1-92 positively-charged protons and 0-146 zero-charged neutrons surrounded by 1-92 negatively-charged electrons in orbit around it. Ion: atom with a different number of protons from electrons. Atomic mass: average mass of protons + neutrons in the nucleus in the atom. Atomic number: number of protons in an atomic nucleus. Avogadro"s number: 6. 023x1023 (one mole of a substance contains this number of atoms or molecules) Molecule: combination of two or more like or alike atoms held by chemical bonds. (examples: h2, o3, co2) Element: single atom or substance composed of several atoms, each with the same atomic number but maybe different number of neutrons (example, calcium, ca) Compound: a substance consisting of atoms of two or more elements (example:
