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In other words, an atom of hydrogen is a unit of hydrogen—the smallest amount of hydrogen that can exist. Firstly a rather trivial one, but as a physicist what is your take on treating the neutron as element zero? The types of possible bondings that some kind of atom may have are determined (in a rather complex way) by the atomic number. I think it best to take a “Wittgenstein approach” and just lay everything out as you have done in the extract above.

The ATOM Brick was founded by Adam Reed Tucker to inspire today’s builders to create the world around them using smaller, Inter-Connecting Bricks. So the correct statement is not quite that “electrons are point-like” but that “electrons are not known not to be point-like”. You have to get close to get the “true” size but there is a restriction on how close you can get so exact size is impossible to measure.Singly ionized oxygen is very close to nitrogen, it will readily bind three hydrogen atoms to produce an ammonia shaped H3O+ molecule and will pair up into strongly bonded O2.

But we are nevertheless at a loss as to how to “explain” this success because of the irreconcilability of the facts into a story that consistently supports our preconceptions. The tent fabric, on its own, tends to be shaped like a little ball, but when you stretch it on the poles, it begins to occupy space. The most stable arrangements is achieved by a certain kind of elements, the noble gases (like Hellium, or Argon, just to name two such noble gases).Chemistry is all about this tendency to look for the most stable state that could be achieved under current conditions, and under certain conditions, the formation of ions is the most stable state for a given kind of atom. 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. If one says “we don’t know” in a general way, important details get lost : that we can predict some properties of the electron to one part in 10 So, what gives an element its distinctive properties—what makes carbon so different from sodium or iron? The main roles of the nucleus are providing the positive charge that holds the electrons in the atom, and providing most of the atom’s mass (which determines how easy it is for other objects to push the atom around.