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- How big is an electron compared with a proton?
- How many electrons would it take to equal the mass of a helium nucleus?
- How can I draw Bohr diagrams?
- How do protons determine the properties of an atom?
- How many neutrons can an atom have?
- What is the atomic structure of carbon?
- Why is the number of protons and electrons equal in an atom?
- Question #2b573
- Question #a2716
- Question #c0a6c
- Why does and electron have negative charge and proton have positive while neutron neutral?
- Question #e9411
- What is the mass of electron if the charge of electron and the ratio of charge to mass are #1.6*10^(-19)"C"# and #1.76*10^8"C/g"# , respectively?
- If the atomic number of an element is 11 and the atomic mass is 24, how many electrons does it have?
- If an atom has an atomic number of 10, how many electrons does it have?
- What is atomic radius?
- How does atomic radius change from left to right across a period in the periodic table?
- Which has a larger atomic radius: sodium or lithium?
- Question #65f0f
- When an atom has an atomic number of 6 and a mass number is 14 how many electrons and neutrons are in the atom?
- How many protons, neutrons, and electrons are present in an atom of aluminum-27?
- Question #6735f
- How many neutrons are found in the nucleus of one atom of chlorine-37?
- How does the nucleus of a copper atom compare to the nucleus of a nickel atom?
- What are the names, charges, and locations of the three types of subatomic particles that make up an atom?
- Question #f3e7d
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- Question #dcf44
- How does atomic number, mass number, and number of electrons, relate to atomic structure?
- What two regions make up all atoms?
- Why don't nuclear protons, with formal positive charges, electrostatically repel each other?
- How many protons, neutrons, and electrons are in #""_19^39 K^(+)#?
- Which subatomic particle plays the greatest part in determining the properties of an element?
- How many protons, electrons, and neutrons does Strontium-38 have?
- How many electrons are in a neutral atom of sodium?
- Question #93c80
- Question #098d1
- An atom of Sodium has 11 protons and a mass number of 13. How many neutrons does it have?
- Question #24d91
- What parts make up the nucleus?
- Multiply the atomic number of hydrogen by the number of electrons in mercury, which has an atomic number of 80. What is the result?
- How many protons and electrons are in a #""_29^64Cu^(2+)# ion?
- Is an electron a nucleon?
- How many nucleons are there in a #Na^+# ion with 13 neutrons?
- How many electrons does a hydrogen atom have?
- How many electrons are in a neutral lithium atom?
- A neutral atom of Nitrogen has a mass of 18. There are 7 protons in the nucleus of this atom. How many neutrons, total electrons, and valence electrons are present?
- What is a negatively charged subatomic particle?
- What are the charges of each part of the atom?
- If an atom has an atomic number of 15 and an atomic mass of 31, how many protons, neutrons and electrons does the atom contain?
- If an atom has an atomic number of 15 and an atomic mass of 31, how many electrons are contained in the outer shell?
- A carbon atom has a mass number of 12. How many protons and how many neutrons does it have?
- In the sentence, "Each element of matter has distinct properties and a distinct atomic structure," what does the word structure mean?
- What do protons and neutrons, the nuclear particles, do with respect to atomic stability?
- An atom of chlorine is represented by #""_17^37 Cl#. How many neutrons are in the nucleus of this atom?
- How many protons are in the nucleus of an atom of chlorine?
- Question #95d67
- How many neutrons are in an atom of sulfur with a mass number of 35?
- If an ion contains 10 electrons, 12 protons, and 13 neutrons, what is the ion's charge?
- What is the Bohr model of potassium?
- Is the Bohr model valid?
- What are the three major differences between Bohr Rutherford Model and Quantum Mechanical Model?
- How many electrons go on each ring of a Bohr model?
- What does binding energy measure?
- Why do nuclear protons have an opposite electronic charge to electrons?
- Question #ea0e8
- How many electrons does a neutral atom with four protons contain?
- How do you figure out the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons there are in an atom when you know the atomic mass?
- How do the structure of the atoms of Hydrogen and Helium differ?
- What is the atomic structure of Polyethylene?
- What is the molecular structure of wood?
- How do you find an atomic structure?
- What is the atomic structure of germanium?
- How would you describe the atomic structure of metals?
- How is atomic structure related to the periodic table?
- How did atomic theory change because of the gold foil experiment?
- How do atomic structures differ from one another?
- How do isotopes differ in atomic structure?
- How do you find the atomic structure of an element?
- How does atomic structure affect chemical reactions?
- What is the distance of a #2s# electron from the nucleus of H atom?
- Helium would to be burn the methane. Why this would not be a suitable method to obtain helium?
- Question #c9ca2
- How many neutrons does a standard hydrogen atom have in its nucleus?
- What atomic particles occupy the nucleus of an atom?
- Why is electric charge balanced in chemical reactions?
- How many neutrons are present in a stable atom of #Ag#?
- How many neutrons are present in a stable atom of aluminum?
- Which element has no neutrons?
- What is the molecular shape of #PF_3#?
- How do you determine the correct molecular shapes of #GeF_4#, #SeF_4#, and #XeF_4#?
- Question #6e87e
- Neon has 10 protons and 10 electrons. How many additional electrons would it take to fill the outer (second) electron shell?
- Most titanium atoms have 22 electrons. Are there some titanium atoms that have a different number of electrons?
- How many neutrons and protons does a typical neutral atom of phosphorus have?
- What is the charge of the nucleus of a phosphorus atom, and how do you know?
- What is the structural formula for #PH_3#?
- What is the structural formula of kerosene?
- What is the structural formula of #C_3H_8O#?
- What is the difference between empirical, molecular, and structural formulas?
- Write a condensed structural formula for each of the following?
- What is the structural formula for methane?
- What is the structural formula for ibuprofen?
- What is the condensed structural formula for ethyne?
- What is the condensed structural formula for acetic acid?
- How does the structuaral formula of butane and butene differ?
- What is the full structural formula for these compounds?
- What is the condensed structural formula for Methanol and Salicylic acid?
- How do you determine a structural formula?
- How does a complete structural formula differ from a condensed?
- What is the structural formula for 2,3,6 trimethyl, 4 ethyl octane?
- What is the condensed structural formula for toluene with bromine?
- What is the structural formula of Penicillin?
- What are the non-charged particles that are contained in the nucleus of an atom?
- Which particle, when emitted from the nucleus of an atom, would have the greatest effect on the mass of the atom?
- Consider a neutral atom with 30 protons and 34 neutrons. What is the atoms number of electrons?
- Consider a hypothetical atom with an atomic number of 4 and a net electronic charge of + 1. It has 4 protons. How many neutrons does this atom have?
- How many protons would a positively charged isotope ions of O-18 have?
- Are most nuclei stable?
- Who proved the existence of neutron in 1934?
- How many protons are there in an atom of iron?
- What property of the atom changes when a neutron is added?
- If an element has an atomic number of 12, how many electrons are in its its outermost shell?
- What is the isotopic composition of strontium metal?
- If Ac-208 loses a neutron, what is left?
- What is in the nucleus of an atom?
- What is the process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal shape called?
- What discovery first indicated that atoms are composed of smaller particles?
- How many protons and neutrons are there in this nucleus#: ^137Ba#?
- The number of protons in an atom equals the number of what?
- What is inside an atom?
- What kind of an atom has the same number of #p+# as #e^-#?
- One of the compounds used to extract bismuth from its ores is 3-methylbutan-2-one (also known as 3-methyl-2-butanone) How do you draw the structural formula of this compound?
- What scientists discovered that the nucleus contains neutrons in addition to protons?
- An atom of calcium contains 20 protons. How many electrons does it have?
- Question #d59c1
- What are #"protons"#, #"neutrons"#, and #"electrons"#?
- What is the charge on a proton?
- What is a particle with zero charge found in the nucleus of an atom is called?
- Help with the following questions???
- What does the nucleus of an atom contain?
- Is the mass of a proton about the same as the mass of an electron?
- What is a positively charged subatomic particle?
- What is an atom that has lost an electron?
- What is an atom that has neither lost or gained an electron?
- Question #225d9
- How did the outcome of Rutherford's gold foil experiment indicate the existence of a nucleus?
- What is the distance an electron is from a proton?
- Question #52673
- What part of the atom is actually visible under the microscope?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in gold?
- What is the number of each subatomic particle in copper?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in iron?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in nitrogen?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in oxygen?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in neon?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in sodium?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in Na?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in Ag?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in Au?
- What are the numbers of the subatomic particles in tin?
- What are the subatomic particles contained in the nucleus of an atom?
- A neutron is a subatomic particle with what charge?
- Aside from neutrons, what else is found in the nucleus of an atom?
- How would you describe the structure ot an atom?
- How many electrons are there in the neutral atom #"_9^19F#?
- Atoms are composed of protons, electrons, and what?
- Atoms of the most reactive elements tend to have?
- Which particles account for most of an atom's mass?
- What is the number of protons in the nucleus referred to as?
- If different atoms have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons what are they called?
- What must a neutral atom with four protons contain?
- What is the electronic arrangement for an atom with FOUR electrons?
- What is electron spin?
- Do all atoms contain neutrons?
- What is the representation and used of #H_2C=O#?
- Question #40a52
- Can atoms of two different elements have the same number of protons?
- What led scientists to conclude that most of the atom's mass is for concentrated in a very small nucleus? What particles are responsible that mass?
- What is the site of an atom's positive charge?
- What contains nearly all of the atom's mass?
- What are atoms with the same number of protons but different number of of neutrons called?
- What is meant by the statement "Atoms are electrically neutral"?
- Question #3968e
- What is the isotopic symbol for 18 protons and 23 neutrons?
- Out of #Na, Li, K, Fr#, which element has the smallest atomic radius?
- Out of #Tc, Rh, Zr, Y#, which element has the smallest atomic radius?
- Out of #Hf, Cs, Pb, Pt #, which element has the smallest atomic radius?
- Out of #Sr, Ca, As, N#, which element has the smallest atomic radius?
- Question #3a9fc
- Which two particles are found in an atom's nucleus?
- What is the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom?
- Question #0ae32
- What is the total number of e- in diaminopropane?
- When scientists look at these examples, what do they know about the atoms?
- What is the combined number of protons and neutrons called?
- What are small particles that have mass and positive electrical charges?
- What tiny particles surround the nucleus, have little mass, and negative electrical charges that are exactly the same magnitude as the positive charges of the protons?
- How does the energy of an electron change when the electron moves closer to the nucleus?
- How do protons identify an atom?
- How are protons, neutrons, and electrons similar?
- Where are true protons, neutrons, and electrons?
- What is the name of the central part of the atom?
- Is cation the same as protons?
- What does a neutral atom always contain?
- Are electrons found in the space inside or outside the nucleus?
- Do electrons have the same mass as a proton?
- Are electrons electrically neutral or are they charged?
- If the electrons are removed from a helium atom, what remains? What is it called?
- If you build an atom using two protons, two neutrons, and two electrons, two electrons what have you built an atom of?
- What are negatively charged particles found outside of the nucleus?
- What is a particle with an unequal number of protons and electrons?
- What are negatively charged subatomic particles that have almost no mass?
- What is a halogen atom?
- How would you determine the total number of electrons found in an atom?
- Are electrons shared among many atoms?
- What area of the atom contains both protons and neutrons?
- What would you do if you discovered a material with positively charged electrons, and a negatively charged nucleus?
- Two protons can exist together in the nucleus of an atom because their electrostatic repulsion is overcome by what forces?
- What are the particles in the nucleus of an atom that carry no charge?
- What is the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom?
- 57.7 g Ni contains how many atoms?
- What does the sign #uarr darr# represent with respect to electrons?
- An atom has 79 electrons. How many protons does it have?
- What is the central core of the atom which makes up most of the atom's mass?
- What is a particle inside an atom that carries a positive electrical charge?
- What is a particle that rapidly moves around the outside of the nucleus and carries a negative charge?
- What is a particle inside an atom that does not carry an electrical charge?
- How do you calculate the number of protons in a neutral atom?
- What values of m are permitted for an electron with #l = 2#?
- What values of #l# are permitted for an electron with n = 3?
- What are electrons, protons and neutrons?
- No person has ever looked inside an atom: How do we know that atoms are made of?
- Who discovered the neutron?
- What did Robert Millikan discover?
- What subatomic particles are equal in mass?
- What are found in the nucleus and have a positive charge?
- What is at the center of the atom and contains protons and neutrons?
- What is the structure of 2-ethyl-3-hexyne?
- What particles form the nucleus of an atom?
- Which scientist was responsible for discovering the neutron?
- An element has an atomic number of 30. How many protons and electrons are in a neutral atom of the element?
- What is the approximate mass of a neutron, in atomic mass units?
- What are the negatively charged electrons attracted to?
- What is a particle with no charge (neutral) in the nucleus of an atom?
- How many protons and neutrons does an atom of c-14 have?
- What scientist discovered the neutron?
- What is the name of the scientist who first proposed that atoms have nucleus?
- What particle may be shared by or transferred to other atoms?
- What is the maximum number of electrons that can exist in the second shell surrounding the nucleus?
- What is the charge of a single electron?
- What is the mass of an electron?
- Without electrons atoms would carry what charge?
- What is the particle that determines the identity of an element?
- What two particles have approximately the same mass?
- What number is the sum of the protons and neutrons?
- Most of the mass of the atom is provided by what?
- Do the neutrons in the atom's nucleus keep two or more protons from moving apart?
- How many electrons are in #-4.8 xx 10^-18# of charge?
- What is the basic particle of an element?
- How do atoms combine?
- Protons and neutrons are located in the nucleus of what?
- What are TWO substances that have the same atomic number, but different atomic masses?
- An atom of nitrogen has seven protons in its nucleus. How many electrons does it have?
- Why must there be the same number of protons and electrons in an atom?
- How would describe the density of an atom's nucleus?
- What is an ion and how is it different from an atom?
- What is meant by a diatomic molecule?
- How can you compare the mass and charge of protons, neutrons and electrons?
- Where are the electrons found in an atom? Where are the protons found in an atom?
- What is the atomic symbol for isotopes with the following characteristics: 15 protons and 16 neutrons?
- What electrically neutral particles are located in the nucleus?
- Question #97cfa
- Question #d6af2
- Which subatomic particles are located in the nucleus of a carbon atom?
- Question #44e8f
- What is the total number of electrons in a superoxide ion, #O_2^-#?
- What is the correct term for atoms of a single element that possess different numbers of neutrons?
- Why has atomic structure changed?
- Consider three 1-gram samples of matter: A, carbon-12; B, carbon-13; C, uranium-238. How do you rank them in terms of having the greatest number of atoms, from least to most?
- Are electrons, protons, or neutrons the smallest particles? If not what are?
- What are the components of an atom?
- How does the charge of an electron compare to the charge of a proton?
- What is the tendency of an atom to pull electrons toward itself referred to as?
- What atoms have 5 protons?
- What is the structure of an atom?
- An atom is described as a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by what?
- An ion is an atom that has had what added or removed?
- What is described as a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by an electron cloud?
- What are atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons called?
- What is the identity of element Q if the ion #Q^(2+)# contains 10 electrons?
- Question #3438c
- How many CHARGED nuclear, and electronic particles are present in #"potassium nitride"#?
- Which of the following statements is correct?
- Question #5d083
- How does the number of electrons compare to the number of nuclear protons?
- Question #86ac6
- Mercury has an atomic number of 80. How many electrons are there in an isotope of mercury-204?
- A magnesium atom reacts to produce a magnesium ion. Which diagram shows a magnesium ion?
- What are the particles with the smallest relative mass that moves around the nucleus?
- Why are atoms of magnesium neutral?
- Zirconium has an atomic number of 40. How many neutrons are there in an isotope of zirconium-92?
- How are positrons and electrons different?
- How are positrons and electrons similar?
- What is the term for an atom that has lost or gained electrons (it's no longer neutral)?
- What is a particle that moves around the outside of the nucleus?
- What did de Broglie say about particles?
- What are the subatomic particles?
- What is the number of protons housed in the nucleus?
- Element X forms #X^(3+)# ions. What would be the formula of the compound formed when reacts with chlorine?
- Are elements WITHOUT neutrons inherently unstable?
- What experiment did J. J. Thomson do?
- Why do electrons have negative charges?
- Question #ed6e8
- Question #fc52b
- Two charged particles held close to each other are released. As they move, the force on each particle increases. Therefore, what must the particles have?
- What is a ion product constant?
- Question #90268
- Are electrons smaller or larger than protons?
- Is the overall charge of the nucleus positive, neutral, or negative?
- How do you find the protons, neutrons, and electrons for a Bromine (#1^-#) anion with a mass number of 80?
- Are electrons inside or outside the nucleus?
- Are neutrons inside or outside the nucleus?
- Are protons positive, neutral or negative?
- The mass of an atom may be determined by adding the masses of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus and then subtracting the mass defect. Why is it unnecessary to include the electrons when determining the mass of an atom?
- What subatomic particle is used to identify the element?
- If an element has atomic number 9 and atomic mass 19, how many neutrons will it have?
- Are protons are inside or outside the nucleus?
- An element has 33 electrons and 75 neutrons. How many protons will it have it it is a neutral atom?
- How is it possible for an atom to have no charge even though is made up up of protons, neutrons, and electrons?
- When atoms gain or lose electrons what do they become?
- What is the number of neutrons in a nucleus?
- What is the total number of electrons in the boron atom?
- Of what three particles is all matter composed?
- If an atom has 35 protons in the nucleus, how many electrons will it have orbiting the nucleus?
- Question #a2680
- Is all matter composed of atoms?
- What scientist is credited with the discovery of the electron?
- What did Louis deBroglie do?
- If you to know the number of protons in an atom of a given element, what would you look up?
- What particles orbit the nucleus in the Bohr model of the atom?
- What two particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?
- What is the number of protons in a nucleus of an element?
- What experiment did Chadwick do to provide the proof of a "massive" particle and what subatomic particle was it?
- What experiment was Chadwick famous for?
- What does an atom become if it loses an electron?
- What takes up most the volume of an atom?
- What is true of all atoms?
- How can we find the number of protons and electrons present in a neutral atom?
- Where is each type of particle located in the atom?
- What is a substance that accepts electrons?
- Electrons that are located outside the nucleus and have what charge?
- How many protons are present in an atom which has an atomic number of 35?
- How many protons are present in an atom?
- What are the three subatomic particles found inside an atom?
- How do we rationalize atomic structure in terms of atomic number and electronic structure?
- Question #e07cb
- Question #abbfc
- In a sample of the element potassium, what does each atom contain?
- The atoms in a sample of an element must contain nuclei with the same number of what?
- When a nonmetal atom gains (an) electron(s), what does it become?
- What is the mass of an electron in amu?
- Question #c9ac9
- Question #d9dbd
- What is the difference between Shell (orbit) , Subshell and orbital ?
- Question #4a04d
- Why don't positively charged nuclear particles repel each other?
- How are neutrons, protons, and electrons related?
- Question #6b12c
- Atomic radius is of order #10^-8# cm and nuclear radius is of order #10^-13#. calculate what fraction of atom is occupied by nucleus?
- How many subatomic particles are present in ONE molecule of #H_3PO_4#?
- What happens when the protons and electrons don't equal each other?
- What do scientists use to predict the locations of electrons in atoms?
- How does the mass of an electron compare to the mass of a proton?
- How many neutrons will an atom of oxygen (atomic number 8) with an atomic mass of 16 have?
- If #Z=5#, how many electrons are in the neutral atom?
- Question #4eddf
- Diffrentiate between an electron and neutron?