Thoughts about the Notes for 9/21/15 about Isotopes

Alpha Decay

Today was actually one of the first days I don't need to go home and study the subject we learned in class about. I fully understood the lesson about isotopes. Learning this actually tied up a lesson we learned about in the past about the different Carbons like Carbon-13. When asked questions about the notes I struggled for a moment, but then I looked back in my notes and found that wasn't as hard as I made it out to be. I still will study for a long time tonight and tomorrow night for the quiz. I will also have to look back on our Nomenclature unit and review it for a little because I was just made aware that our past lessons will be on the test. Today I understood everything for the most part, tied up a connection from the past, and was made aware of a section of the test.

Final thoughts about Nomenclature

Type I, II, III binary compounds

Some final thoughts I have on Nomenclature are how much scientists rely on Nomenclature. If you really think about it imagine how hard it would be to name compounds and balance ionic bonds if they had not developed a system.

First thing I learned in Nomenclature

Type 1 Binary Compounds

The very first thing I learned in Nomenclature was how to name type 1 binary compounds. I learned that ions are formed into compounds. The charges on these ions are what decides how many atoms are in each bond.