Ground state of Al is 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p¹.
Exited state of Al is 1s²2s²2p⁶3s¹3p².
A molecule of the compound carbon dioxide contains one atom of the element carbon and two atoms of the element oxygen. Each oxygen atom shares a double bond with the carbon atom.
The ice sculpture would take longer to melt than the ice cube
If you melt and cool silicon dioxide under very special conditions
<span>in the laboratory we can grow a single </span>crystalline<span> form of </span>
<span>silicon dioxide that we call quartz. In quartz crystals all of </span>
<span>the molecules are aligned and bonded together in a regular three </span>
<span>dimensional tetrahedral structure forming a very hard, transparent </span>
<span>material with special electronic properties. </span>
