Question

Students are completing a table about a particular subatomic particle that helps make up an atom.

A 3-column table with 2 rows. The first row has entries Mass (a m u), location, charge. The second row has entries 1, nothing, nothing.

What best explains how they should complete the table?

with “Inside the nucleus,” because the particle is a proton
with “Inside the nucleus,” because the particle is a neutron
with “Outside the nucleus,” because the particle is a proton
with “Outside the nucleus,” because the particle is an electron

Answer 1

Answer:

Inside the nucleus, because the particle is a proton

Answer 2

Answer:

the capitalized first letter of the name of the element in English, Latin, or German. For example…

C for carbon

K for kalium (potassium in Latin)

W for wolfram (tungsten in German)

the capitalized first letter followed by another lowercase letter from the name of the element in English or Latin. For example…

Si for silicon

Sn for stannum (tin in Latin)

Systematic naming rules

digit symbol root

0 n nil

1 u un

2 b bi

3 t tri

4 q quad

5 p pent

6 h hex

7 s sept

8 o oct

9 e en

suffix none -ium

a systematic element name and symbol — essentially a placeholder. These are only used for elements that are very heavy, very unstable, and very hard to make. Systematic element names are built from three roots, one for each decimal digit in the atomic number, with the suffix -ium added to the end. The corresponding symbol is built from three letters, one for each root, with the first letter capitalized. For example…

Uuo for ununoctium (the systematic name for element 118). In 2016 it was named oganesson after Yuri Oganessian, a pioneer in superheavy element research. Uuo and ununoctium were then retired.

Uts for untriseptium (the systematic name for element 137). If and when it is discovered it will be called this for a while. Some have proposed naming it feynmanium (Fy) after the American physicist Richard Feynman who predicted it would be the heaviest element possible. How this scenario plays out is open to some speculation.

This last convention arose during the Transfermium Wars of the late 20th century, which, despite sounding like a science fiction battle for supremacy of the galaxy, was actually nothing more than an academic argument. At this time, nuclear chemists in the United States and the Soviet Union were synthesizing elements heavier than fermium (thus the adjective "transfermium") and the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union were embroiled in the Cold War (thus the noun "wars"). Put the two together and you get Transfermium Wars — a bunch of chemists arguing about whose laboratory (and by proxy, whose superpower nation) was the best.