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How is it possible that helium, having 2 protons, and lithium, having 3 protons, are so different in terms of their physical properties? How come one is a gas at room temperature and the other is a solid metal?
Then why lithium and beryllium, the latter having 1 proton more than the former, are both metals and solids at room temperature?
Now if you remove neutrons from the nuclei of any element (except hydrogen), they form isotopes that have similar chemical properties and different physical properties, while still being an atom of the same element - therefore the protons, if I understand it correctly, are what determine whether an element is a gas or a solid at room temperature, and not the neutrons (or even electrons). Is this true?
The deeper question is that why do the properties of elements and their atoms change significantly - in some cases as with helium and lithium - just by having an additional proton in their nucleus, if the fundamental building blocks of protons (quarks) are identical for each proton? Then in the case of lithium and beryllium, why is the change in physical properties so subtle compared to the first case?
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This question has already been asked before, however I am specifically interested in helium and lithium - why is one a gas and the other a solid metal at room temperature, having completely different chemical and physical properties? Is this a result of the electron shell configuration? Why does an extra proton, neutron and electron give rise to such a difference?
Answer:
positively charged nucleons are 24
Explanation:
Given element:
₂₄⁵⁰ Cr
The superscript before the symbol of the atoms is mass number
The subscript before the symbol is the atomic number
Cr is the symbol of the atom
Now,
Atomic number is the number of protons in an atom.
The protons are the positively charged particles in an atom.
For this specie, the positively charged nucleons are 24
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pretty sure its Scientific laws are statements about observed experimental facts, while theories are explanations of natural phenomena.
The lone pairs on the oxygen in the following compound are best described as: <u>one localized and one delocalized</u>
<h3>Lone pair electron</h3>
A lone pair electron is valence shell electron pair associated with one atom, and not part of a covalent bond.
Within the context of this question, the oxygen atom of water for instance has two lone pair of which one of them is localized and other one is delocalized
Learn more about lone pair electrons:
brainly.com/question/3915115
Answer:
This is and ADDITION REACTION
Explanation:
Because your putting a compound and an element together