NATS 1510 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Decay Chain, Radium, Gas Gas

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1510
• Professor: Reza Mani

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Poisonous air he placed a mouse in a closed jar until it died. Then, he burned a candle in the jar until it went out. Then, he combusted phosphorus in the jar until it would no longer burn. The gasses inside the jar were passed though a chemical that would remove carbon dioxide. The remaining gas could not support life, or allow a candle to burn. Argon was isolated by examination of the residue obtained by removing nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water from clean air. Dorn discovered radon (cid:449)hile e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g radiu(cid:373)"s decay chain. Radon is primarily acquired though the alpha decay of radium. Then he heated calx until it gave off a gas. He realized that combustion resulted from a chemical reaction with this gas. Why they called the gas by another name. Rutherford called the gas he discovered (cid:862)poiso(cid:374)ous air(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause molecular nitrogen could not support life (a mouse in a sealed jar of molecular nitrogen would die)