DIRECTIONS:

1.   Select a new page in your Spiral lab notebook,

2.   Fill in the top portion of the first page only. Take the following steps:               step 1 – print your last name followed by printing your first name in the box entitled NAME; step 2- Place the name Honors Chemistry Chapter 4 Overview in the box entitled EXPERIMENT/SUBJECT; step 3 – leave EXP NUMBER blank; step 4 – Place the due date 28 September 2007 in the box entitled DATE; step 5 – leave LAB PARTNER and LOCKER/DESK NO. blank; step 6 – place Honors Chemistry period ___ in the box labeled COURSE AND SECTION NO.

3.   Read Chapter 4 and summarize what you reads using the outline presented after reminder.

á      REMINDER – GRADING SYLLABUS: BASED UPON CLARITY AND NEATNESS

1.    A = THREE PAGES

2.    B = TWO PAGES

3.    C = ONE PAGE

á      ELEMENTS

-        9 OF 100 ELEMENTS ACCOUNT FOR 98% OF TOTAL MASS OF EARTHÕS CRUST.

-        HUMAN BODY CONSISTS OF NITROGEN, HYDROGEN, OXYGEN AND CARBON.

-        ELEMENTS ARE REPRESENTED BY SYMBOLS THAT USUALLY REPRESENT THE FIRST OR SECOND LETTER OF THEIR CHEMICAL NAME.

á      DALTONÕS LAW

-        HIS ATOMIC THEORY ACCOUNT FOR THE LAW OF CONSTANT COMPOSITION.

-        ATOMS ARE NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED, BUT CHANGE FROM ONE FORM TO ANTOHER FORM.

-        POSTULATED THAT ALL ATOMS ARE COMPOSED OF ATOMS.

á      COMPOUNDS

-        CHEMICAL FORMULA THA TUSES SYMBOLS FOR EACH TYPE OF ATOM.

-        GIVES THE NUMBER OF EACH TYPE OF ATOM THAT APPEARS IN A MOLECULE OF A COMPOUND.

-        COMPOUNDS CONSIST OF ATOMS AND EACH ATOM HAS CERTAIN SET OF CHARGES.

-        THE CHARGES INCLUDE PROTONS, NEUTRONS IN A NUCLEUS WITH ELECTRONS SURROUNDING THE NUCLEUS.

-        PROTONS CONTAIN A POSITIVE CHARGE, NEUTRONS CARRY A NEUTAL CHARGE AND ELECTRONS CARRY A NEGATIVE CHARGE.

á      PERIODIC TABLE

    -    CONTAIN GROUPS IN A VERTICAL COLUMN CALLED FAMILIES.

      -      GROUPS HAVE SIMILAR CHEMICAL PROPERTIES.

      -      THE MAJORITY OF THE PERIODIC TABLE CONSISTS OF METALS.

      -      THE DARK STAIR STEP LIKE LINE SEPARATE THE METALS FROM THE NON METALS WITH THE

             METALS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DARK LINE WITH THE NONMETALS APPEARING TO THE

             RIGHT SIDE OF THE DARK STAIR STEP LIKE LINE,