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Antoine Lavoisier played a crucial role in our _______ of the elements.
a) prediction
b) understanding
c) foretelling
d) constructing

Lavoisier made one of the first ______ of the elements. His list included the thirty-three elements known in his day.
a) lists
b) analysis
c) projects
d) synthesis

Robert Boyle was an _______ who believed that it was possible to change one element into another.
a) scientist
b) chemyst
c) alchemist
d) soldier

Boyle’s work solidified the position that matter consisted of indivisible particles of ________, rejecting the Greek concept of matter.
a) space
b) liquids
c) solids
d) elements

Boyle published The Skeptical Chemyst, in which he called for ________ to be the basis of science.
a) physics
b) experimentation
c) scientists
d) alchemists

Some alchemists were interested in studying _______ for purely scientific reasons.
a) electrons
b) compounds
c) data
d) elements

Half of the 118 known elements were _______ only in the last 160 years.
a) discovered
b) renamed
c) destroyed
d) eliminated

Ancient Greeks thought that all matter was made of ____ elements.
a) two
b) five
c) three
d) sixty

Interest in elements and other materials led to the rise of a group of scientists called _______.
a) chemists
b) wizards
c) alchemists
d) magicians

Diamond anvil cells are tiny laboratories in which scientists reproduce the most ______ conditions in our universe.
a) intense
b) basic
c) benign
d) common

Diamonds are made of the same element as _______for your grill: carbon.
a) copper
b) iron
c) charcoal
d) steel

A device called the diamond _______ cell enables scientists to create extreme pressures and temperatures.
a) scale
b) balance
c) tool
d) anvil

Diamonds are the hardest natural substance and have the highest _______ conductivity.
a) nuclear
b) thermal
c) magnetic
d) caloric

Diamonds may be a researcher’s best _______.
a) friend
b) tactic
c) plan
d) outcome

Berzelius came up with ________ for the forty-seven elements known to him.
a) places
b) names
c) symbols
d) electrons

In two-letter symbols the first letter is always ________ and the second letter is always lowercase.
a) lowercase
b) extra
c) boldface
d) capitalized

The elements were given names in Latin. Some of the symbols are based on the element’s name in this _____ language.
a) original
b) new
c) latest
d) modern

As the number of elements grew, many scientists looked for ways to _________ the information known about them.
a) locate
b) arrange
c) dismiss
d) test

In 1865, Newlands developed his law of ________, which states that when elements are arranged by atomic mass, the properties of every eighth element are similar.
a) lists
b) periods
c) octaves
d) electrons

German chemist Johann Döbereiner made a key discovery while studying properties of the elements in the early 1800s. He noticed groups of elements, like chlorine, bromine (35), and iodine (53), with _______ properties.
a) identical
b) opposite
c) repelling
d) similar

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