CCA Physical Science 4A (BLUE)

2. The elements were given names in Latin. Some of the symbols are based on the element's name in this _____ language.
6. Half of the 118 known elements were _______ only in the last 160 years.
8. Interest in elements and other materials led to the rise of a group of scientists called _______.
11. A device called the diamond _______ cell enables scientists to create extreme pressures and temperatures.
12. Boyle's work solidified the position that matter consisted of indivisible particles of ________, rejecting the Greek concept of matter.
14. Berzelius came up with ________ for the forty-seven elements known to him.
15. Boyle published The Skeptical Chemyst, in which he called for ________ to be the basis of science.

1. Antoine Lavoisier played a crucial role in our _______ of the elements.
3. As the number of elements grew, many scientists looked for ways to _________ the information known about them.
4. "Diamonds are the hardest natural substance and have the highest _______ conductivity."
5. In two-letter symbols the first letter is always ________ and the second letter is always lowercase.
7. Diamonds are made of the same element as _______for your grill: carbon
9. Robert Boyle was an _______ who believed that it was possible to change one element into another.
10. Lavoisier made one of the first ______ of the elements. His list included the thirty-three elements known in his day.
12. Some alchemists were interested in studying _______ for purely scientific reasons.
13. Ancient Greeks thought that all matter was made of ____ elements.
16. Diamond anvil cells are tiny laboratories in which scientists reproduce the most ______ conditions in our universe.