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Which substance can not be broken down by a chemical change

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A substance that cannot be broken down into even by chemical means is called an element. About 90 elements on the Periodic Table can be found naturally on Earth. Three of the most common ones are aluminium, silicon and oxygen.
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Answer : False, there will be two lithium and one oxygen atoms in a unit molecular structure of lithium oxide.

Explanation:

Electronic configuration of lithium is :

$Li=1s^2s^1$

In order to attain stable electronic configuration it will loose an electron and form positively charge cation.

$Li^+=1s^22s^0$

The electronic configuration of oxygen is:

$O=1s^22s^22p^4$

Oxygen being second most electronegative atom requires two electrons to attain noble gas configuration stability and form negatively charge ion with 2- charge.:

$O^{2-}=1s^22s^22p^6$

When two atom of lithium and oxygen comes together , one electron from each lithium atom get transferred to an oxygen atom which results in formation of lithium oxide.

$2Li^++O^{2-}\rightarrow Li_2O$