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A radioactive isotope is an isotope whose nucleus readily decays, giving off subatomic particles and electromagnetic energy.So, what gives an element its distinctive properties—what makes carbon so different from sodium or iron? If you take a look at the periodic table of the elements, you will notice that hydrogen and helium are placed alone on either sides of the top row; they are the only elements that have just one electron shell ( [link]). On the periodic table of the elements, mercury (Hg) has an atomic number of 80 and a mass number of 200.

So the correct statement is not quite that “electrons are point-like” but that “electrons are not known not to be point-like”. In any case, the equations we use give correct predictions for atoms and how they behave; the issue in question is how you interpret what the equations signify, which is inevitably ambiguous.Again, a look at the periodic table reveals that all of the elements in the second row, from lithium to neon, have just two electron shells. In reference to the part after the electron radius, I personally also would leave out remarks how weird or bizzare or hard to understand something is, because with that, you are creating a kind of “thinking-barrier” – at least for some people. For scale, if an atom were the size of your bedroom, its nucleus would be the size of a speck of dust (unless you’ve got a really big bedroom. When two hydrogen atoms each share their single electron with oxygen, covalent bonds are formed, resulting in a molecule of water, H 2O. Helium, as well as larger atoms with eight electrons in their valence shell, is unlikely to participate in chemical reactions because they are stable.

that concluded that perhaps touch was just being close enough to interact, and from this article I gather you suggest that the size of an object is the area of space that other particles will interact with it, bouncing off but possibly also including other interactions like scattering or fusing? A molecule of table salt (NaCl) contains two atoms, one of sodium (Na) and one of chlorine (Cl); a molecule of water (H 2O) has two of hydrogen and one of oxygen; a molecule of table sugar (C 12H 22O 11) is made from twelve atoms of carbon, eleven of oxygen and twenty-two of hydrogen in a very particular arrangement. Another method uses our ability to trap ions (atoms which are slightly altered, as explained below). The available types of bondings for a given kind of atom are related to this tendency to look for the most stable state that can be achieved by a given atom under current conditions. An isotope is one of the different forms of an element, distinguished from one another by different numbers of neutrons.Instead of pursuing chemistry itself, a subject for a whole college course, we’ll continue on down to the subatomic particles, addressing along the way the other questions that are still unanswered. But, atoms themselves contain many subatomic particles, the three most important of which are protons, neutrons, and electrons. b) In the electron cloud model, the electrons of carbon are shown in the variety of locations they would have at different distances from the nucleus over time.

The nucleus is made of other “particles”, which are made of yet other “particles”; we’ll get to them in future articles. Although the territory that is considered part of the town may be quite large, the actual amount of area occupied by houses is very small, as is the area occupied by the village at the center of the town. Your pedagogical quibble is well taken: these are indeed questions that always get asked and that I have to answer in these articles.Because an atom usually has the same number of electrons as protons, the atomic number identifies the usual number of electrons as well. This size allows for more details to be represented in models while still allowing for ease of handling for builders. An object’s mass is the amount of matter contained in the object, and the object’s mass is the same whether that object is on Earth or in the zero-gravity environment of outer space. is something that turns out to be precise only with careful technical definitions, and ambiguous because there are different possible definitions that depend on what experiment you are carrying out.