Imagine a chemist is in the lab and trying to make some chemical reactions happen. In one reaction she reacts chemicals in an exothermic reaction and there is an increase in entropy. A second chemical reaction she is trying to run is endothermic and there is a decrease in entropy. Which of the two reactions is more likely to occur and why?
Benthos are "organisms inhabiting the seafloor" according to one source, so I would say the answer is C.
There are essentially 5 states of matter-
1) Solid
2) Liquid
3) Gas
4) Plasma
5) Bose-Einstein Condensate
Plasma comprises of positive and negatively charged particles that are formed in extremely high temperature conditions. A characteristic of plasma is that it is not dense enough. The ions tend to be far apart, which makes them to spread out and imparts compressibility.
Ans B)
The answer is: when the aim is to show electron distributions in shells
An orbital notation is more appropriate if you want to show how the electrons of an atom are distributed in each subshell. This is because there are some atoms that have special electronic configurations that aren't obvious in just written configurations.
The correct answer is a metal atom forms a cation, and a nonmetal atom forms an anion. This is because metals are less electronegative than nonmetals and will therefore give electrons to nonmetals. Atoms that give up electrons will have a positive charge therefore becoming a cation while atoms that accept electrons will have a negative charge therefore becoming an anion.
Ions that have the same charge can't be attracted to each other since it takes a positive and negative charge to cause attractive forces.
A less electronegative atom will transfer electrons to a more electronegative atom.
A metal (cation) can pull electrons from another metal (not an ion) but that does not form an attractive force between the two metals (You will learn more about this when you go over reduction potentials, redox reactions, and electrochemistry).
I hope this helps. Let me know if anything is unclear.
