chpt. 2 -- atoms, molecules, ions

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on atoms, molecules, ions. This document goes into detail about the law of conservation of mass, the law of multiple proportions, John Dalton and the Atomic Theory of Matter, the discovery of the electron, Millikan Oil Drop experiment, radioactivity, the atom (circa 1900), the discovery of the nucleus, the nuclear atom, interpreting elemental entries on the periodic table, elements can have more than one isotope, atomic mass, using weight average calculations for unequal quantities, calculating atomic weights, the modern view of atomic structure, the arrangement of the periodic table, why atoms form/bond into moleucles, the structure of molecules & molecular compounds, interpreting the formulas of moleucles & molecular compounds, if atoms are "happy"/stable once they look like noble gases, the composition and the reason behind the structure of ionic molecules, predicting the molecular formula of ionic compounds using the periodic table, learning how to name ionic compounds, naming ions in monoatomic ionic compounds and determining transition metal charges, the nomenclature for naming acids, and the nomenclature of binary or molecular compounds.