100 Chemistry Questions for Kids and Adults

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List of chemistry questions with which you can learn about topics as diverse as atoms, states of matter, chemical elements, atomic models, famous chemists, laboratory instruments, chemical reactions and much more.

Answering questions is one of the best ways to learn, since it can be done as a game and this makes it interesting and fun. In addition, it can be learned in a group, doing challenges with family or friends. You may also be interested in these science questions.

What is the chemical element with the lowest atomic weight?

Answer

Hydrogen.

Does the nucleus of an atom have electrons and neutrons or protons and neutrons? 

Answer

Protons and neutrons.

Ice is denser or less dense than liquid water?

Answer

It is less dense, so it floats.

What chemical compound does this figure represent??

Answer

Hydrochloric acid.

What are the three main states of matter?

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Solid, liquid and gaseous..

What is this laboratory instrument called?

Answer

Bunsen lighter.

What is the temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas called? 

Answer

Boiling point.

Is burning wood a physical or chemical change? 

Answer

It's a chemical change.

What chemical element is commonly found inside this instrument?

Answer

Mercury.

What is the chemical symbol for Silver?

Answer

Ag.

What is the classification system of chemical elements according to their atomic number?

Answer

The periodic table.

What are the atoms that have a positive charge called?

Answer

Cations.

In a chemical reaction, bonds are broken and reformed between different atoms. True or false?.

Answer

True.

Sand and water is an example of what kind of homogeneous or heterogeneous mixture? 

Answer

Heterogeneous.

What is the outermost shell of an atom called?

Answer

Valencia cloak.

Who is this english chemist?

Answer

John dalton.

What is the temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a solid called?

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Freezing point.

What is the metallurgical process called in which a metal is obtained in the molten state?

Answer

Foundry.

What subatomic particles have a mass of about 1?

Answer

Protons and neutrons.

Are there more chemical elements or more chemical compounds?

Answer

There are many more chemical compounds.

What type of chemical reaction absorbs energy and requires energy for the reaction to occur? 

Answer

Endothermic.

What chemical elements make up water? 

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Oxygen and hydrogen.

What branch of chemistry studies the chemical processes that take place in living things? 

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Biochemistry.

What are substances composed of atoms of the same element called? 

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Pure substances.

What is called the aggregation of two or more atoms?

Answer

Molecule.

What instrument used in chemical laboratories is shown in the picture?

Answer

Volumetric flask..

In what state does matter completely fill the space in which it is enclosed?

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In the gaseous state.

What is the change of state from gas to liquid called?

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Condensation.

What chemicals identified polonium and radium?  

Answer

Pierre and Marie Curie.

 What are the atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei called? 

Answer

Isotopes.

What branch of chemistry deals with the study of carbon compounds?

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Organic chemistry.

What are organic compounds that contain only hydrogen and oxygen called?

Answer

Hydrocarbons.

Who proposed the atomic model shown in the image? 

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It is Bohr's atomic model..

What is the chemical symbol for Potassium?

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Its chemical symbol is K.

To whom is the establishment of the first periodic table of the elements owed?? 

Answer

To Dimitri Mendeleev.

Who discovered radioactivity?

Answer

Henri Becquerel.

What chemical elements are very good conductors of electricity? 

Answer

The metals.

Who is this chemist?

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Louis Victor de Broglie.

What is the name of the component of a solution that is found in greater proportion??

Answer

Solvent.

What is the number of atoms that a gram of matter contains??

Answer

Mol.

In what state of matter is surface tension observed?? 

Answer

In the liquid state.

What type of reaction releases energy and does not require initial energy to occur? 

Answer

Exothermic.

What state of matter does not have its own shape or volume?

Answer

The gaseous state.

What is the chemical symbol for Plutonium

Answer

Pu.

What is the force that holds two atoms together?

Answer

Chemical bond.

Which instrument is shown in the picture?

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A Geiger Counter, which makes it possible to measure the radiation emitted by atomic nuclei.

Who claimed, in 1803, that matter is made up of small independent corpuscles that are impossible to divide?

Answer

John dalton.

On what principle is the hydrogen bomb based? 

Answer

In nuclear fission or in nuclear fusion? In nuclear fusion.

What is the number of protons that an atom of an element has??

Answer

Atomic number.

What charge do the electrons in atoms have?? 

Answer

Negative charge.

Who is this Nobel Prize winning chemistry in chemistry? 

Answer

Marie Curie.

What are the three types of radiation that a radioactive body can emit? 

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Alpha rays, beta rays and gamma rays.

What is released when two atoms separate? 

Answer

Heat or thermal energy.

Does the electron behave like a particle or like a wave? 

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Like both, in fact, Louis Broglie discovered that they possess both behaviors.

What is the name of the material that can be permanently deformed by heat and pressure?

Answer

Thermostable.

What is shown in the picture?

Answer

Light emission spectra for three elements.

Can a chemical reaction be both exothermic and endothermic? Yes or no. 

Answer

Not.

What is the atomic symbol for Mercury?

Answer

Hg.

What is the amount of space that a substance or thing occupies called?? 

Answer

Volume.

Is rust formation on a bicycle a physical or chemical change??

Answer

A chemical change.

In what state is the matter whose atoms are shown in the image?? 

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In the solid state.

What is the name of the process in which matter goes from a liquid to a gaseous state? 

Answer

Evaporation.

What is the quality of matter of being cold or hot called?? 

Answer

Temperature.

Who discovered oxygen in 1770?

Answer

Joseph Priestley.

Who proposed that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules? 

Answer

Amedeo Avogadro.

What is the name of the bond that holds the oppositely charged particles together??

Answer

Ionic bond.

What element has the chemical symbol "N"?

Answer

Nitrogen.

What was the first chemical reaction controlled by humans? 

Answer

The fire.

What chemical transformation commonly occurs in wine?

Answer

Fermentation.

Who is this chemist?

Answer

Niels Bohr .

What charge do the neutrons have on the atom? 

Answer

They have no charge, they are neutral particles.

What must we do to decondense matter? 

Answer

Increase your temperature.

Who is known as the "father of modern chemistry"?

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Antoine Lavoisier.

What is the name of the instrument used to measure the amounts of heat supplied or received by bodies??

Answer

Calorimeter.

What branch of chemistry studies the amounts of heat that accompany chemical reactions?

Answer

Thermochemistry.

What compound has the chemical formula NH3

Answer

Ammonia .

What is the name of the process that separates the elements of a compound by means of electricity?

Answer

Electrolysis.

What are the compounds formed by ions called? 

Answer

Ionic compounds.

What is the chemical symbol for Lead?

Answer

Its chemical symbol is Pb.

Burning a piece of wood, is it an exothermic or endothermic reaction? 

Answer

Exothermic.

What happens when we increase the temperature of a gas? Does it expand or contract?? 

Answer

Gas expands.

Who invented dynamite?

Answer

Alfred Nobel.

Ionic bonds are relatively strong. True or false? 

Answer

True.

What is the most widely used organic compound in the world?

Answer

Ethylene.

What are the dissolution reactions in which an insoluble compound is formed??

Answer

Precipitate reactions.

How many noble gases are there?

Answer

Six.

What is the most common element in oxides? 

Answer

The Oxigen.

What unit of measurement of the concentration of a solution is expressed by the letter M?

Answer

Molarity.

What is the quantitative study of reactants and products in a chemical reaction called?

Answer

Stoichiometry.

What chemical element is seen in the image and what is its chemical symbol?

Answer

Copper, its chemical symbol is Cu.

What principle states that the position and velocity of an electron cannot be known at the same time?

Answer

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

What is the lightest noble gas?

Answer

Helium.

What radioactive element is shown in the image?

Answer

Uranium.

In which branch of chemistry is quantum mechanics applied?? 

Answer

In quantum chemistry.

What is the heaviest noble gas?

Answer

Radon.

What are the elements with metallic and non-metallic characteristics called at the same time?? 

Answer

Metalloids.

What element was initially called "dephlogistized air"?

Answer

The Oxigen.

What are halogen elements?

Answer

Bromine, iodine, chlorine, fluorine and astate.

What are the six elements of Group I of the periodic table called??

Answer

Alkali metals.

Mixtures are divided into two classes. Which are? 

Answer

Homogeneous and heterogeneous.

To which substance does the molecule in the image? 

Answer

The water.


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