Okay, to explain this you might have to grab a periodic table.
Do you have one? Good. Look at the most left side of the periodic table. The first group is the largest atoms in the periodic table. If you go to the right of the periodic table, the atoms get progressively smaller and smaller.
Why is this? Don't atoms get more electrons, and so become significantly bigger as they move to the right?
Although atoms do get more electrons as they go to the right, they also get more protons too. Protons pull on electrons and make atoms smaller. Because of this, going from left to right in a periodic table makes the atoms smaller and smaller, since more and more protons are added.
In this scenario, Aluminum is more to the right than Sodium, which means that it has more protons. Because of this, the protons in Aluminum pull more strongly on electrons than sodium, thus making aluminum smaller.
(Just a side note, going down in a periodic table makes the atoms bigger, since new shells are added every time)
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-T.B.
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There are three types of DNA Mutations: base substitutions, deletions and insertions. Single base substitutions are called point mutations, recall the point mutation Glu -----> Val which causes sickle-cell disease. Point mutations are the most common type of mutation and there are two types.
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Fossils are remains or traces from ancient life's that is most likely buried in rocks anywhere in the world. Fossils are basically bones, teeth, shells, nests, leaf impressions, and footprints. That is technically explaining what our planet was like long ago. Some dinosaur fossils have been found. Paleontologists find them almost everywhere. If you don't know what Paleontologists are, they're basically people who study fossils. A lot of fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary is a rock that has been formed from things like sand, mud, and many other kinds of rocks.
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For the answer to the question above, one of the most important risks to take into account regarding the mining of uranium is the possibility of nuclear decay taking place and contaminating the worker. So I believe the answer is the last one which is <span>the health hazards that are associated with uranium mining</span>
