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A famous example is that the proton size effectively grows (not a lot) as you increase the energy of the particles that you are scattering off of it. 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. For example, the elements in the first column all have a single valence electron—an electron that can be “donated” in a chemical reaction with another atom. Possibly the ultimate explanation will be of a less mathematical character and a more artistic or intuitive character. I think it is not quite correct to say that the nucleus is not involved in chemistry, because the mass of the nucleus is sometimes important.

PET can reveal some cancerous masses because cancer cells consume glucose at a high rate to fuel their rapid reproduction. I was going to answer them later, but your point is that probably I need to bring them up — at least pose them, with links to answers — in this article directly.

Atoms are made up of even smaller subatomic particles, three types of which are important: the proton, neutron, and electron. The tent poles themselves don’t occupy much space but they “pin down” the tent fabric and give it shape. Size is not a characteristic of an object; it is a characteristic of the interaction between a probing object and the object that it is being probed , and it often comes with ambiguities. What that means is that on a given atom, each electron has a unique set of quantum numbers, and they “want to stay as far away” from any other electron as they can. One method involves a “scanning tunneling microscope”, which can show the atoms inside a crystal, or even move them around one at a time.

I am trying “yes, this is weird — and it’s ok if it seems weird to you, because it seems weird to me too. But then you have to also have the caveat that the electron behaves like a point particle under some circumstances.Concerning the size of an electron, could you simply not mention it and merely give the mass ratio between a nucleus and an electron as some kind of measure, and cross your fingers?

So, just like Prof Strassler described, chemistry is all about the behaviour of the valence electrons (and all electrons behave according to quantum mechanics). Chemistry occurs — molecules form and change — when atoms come close together, and that happens when the outermost (“valence”) electrons from one atom come close to those of another atom — when the edge of the grey region of one atom comes into the general vicinity of the grey region of another atom.

We all know that singly-ionized oxygen doesn’t turn into nitrogen, but I’m not sure I could state simply, clearly, and correctly why it doesn’t…as opposed to meandering on at great length!

a) In the planetary model, the electrons of helium are shown in fixed orbits, depicted as rings, at a precise distance from the nucleus, somewhat like planets orbiting the sun. Because an atom usually has the same number of electrons as protons, the atomic number identifies the usual number of electrons as well. 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. For example, in the past, the only options for a patient with one or more tumors in the liver were surgery and chemotherapy (the administration of drugs to treat cancer).Answer: the properties of its outermost electrons, which are determined by the total number of electrons for each element, i.