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How many additional electrons is an oxygen atom able to attract?
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oxygen is able to attract 2 electrons
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What charge is on acceptor atom?
If I understand it right, an acceptor atom is that one which accepts the electrons, then it has positive charge and thus it is able to attract the negatively charged electrons.
What aspects of an atom determine how an atom will bond to another atom?
the outermost electrons of an atom. these are called valence electrons. atoms are also grouped in the periodic table based on their valence electrons. to complete a full outermost shell there must be 8 electrons. hydrogen has 1 valence electron. and oxygen has 7. they are able to bond together because of how many valence electrons they have.
What water molecules determines its chemistry and thus the chemistry of life?
Water molecules are polar covalent molecules, meaning that the two hydrogens share their electrons with the oxygen, but the electrons "spend more time with" the oxygen. This is because oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, and attrcts electrons more strongly. Since the concentration of electrons is greater around the Oxygen, the Water molecule is slightly negatively charged at the oxygen end, and slightly positively charged at the hydrogen end. This polarity allows water molecules to dissolve compounds very easily, because they can strongly attract polar ends of other molecules. This helps your body with all of the chemistry it does to eat and function. In addition to polarity, water is more dense than ice. This means that ice will float on water. If this was not true, than many animals would never have been able to live and grow in watery environments, and life on earth may never have become larger than microscopic organisms.
Why the water is stronger acidic than alcohol?
alcohols have methyl groups, ethyl groups ect... attached to the alcohol. Carbon and its hydrogens are considerd electron donating groups (because they are not electronegative like F, O or N); therefore they donate part of their electric charge toward the oxygen on the alcohol making that oxygen less able to distribute the electron from the lost hydrogen. Meanwhile, water can lose a hydrogen and does not contain any electron donating groups (such as Carbon) and the oxygen is better suited to distribute the extra electrons from the lost hydrogen. think about it... if carbon is donating part of its electrons to oxygen in an alcohol, there is less room for that oxygen to take on the electrons from a lost hydrogen vs water.
If a atom that has 8 protons and 8 neutrons in the necleus and 2 electrons in the first and 8 in the next What is the atom?
Protons determine the identity and will never change. If you change the protons you change the element. On the periodic table the single digit number beside of the element tells you the number of protons. By looking up 8 on your periodic table you are able to determine that it is Oxygen. However, for you question you mentioned 2 electrons in the first and 8 in the next. If you are referring to the orbits around the nucleus this means that you have two more electrons than you do protons which means you have an ion. Your atom is still Oxygen but it is written like this O-2. The negative two tells you that you have two more electrons than you do protons.
Why the addition of two electrons or removal of one electron requires more energy in oxygen atom?
Type your answer here... when adding an electrons to oxygen it needs more energy in electron affinity in order to attract electrons from other atoms to be stable.and we know that oxygen is in short of two electrons.so in the other hand when an electron is removed from oxygen it will be unstable and will be needing more ionization energy to be able to remove an electron to it.Thus mean indeed when adding or removing electrons for oxygen it requires energy.
Fluorine has a higher electronegativity than Lithium What does this actually mean?
electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons, therefore fluorine is more able to attract electrons then lithium (has a greater pull).
What charge is on acceptor atom?
If I understand it right, an acceptor atom is that one which accepts the electrons, then it has positive charge and thus it is able to attract the negatively charged electrons.
Why do hydrogen atoms in water have a slight positive charge?
The dipole in water is caused by the difference in electronegativity between Oxygen and Hydrogen. Oxygen is more electronegative than Hydrogen, so is better able to attract electrons towards itself. This results in the electron pair in the covalent O-H bond being more localised on the Oxygen atom, corresponding to less electron density on Hydrogen. Due to the additional electron density, the Oxygen is slightly negatively charged, while the lack of electron density on Hydrogen makes it slightly positively charged. The reason for the difference in electronegativity is the number of protons in the nuclei of the two atoms. Hydrogen has a single proton, while Oxygen has 8, resulting in greater positive attraction for negatively charged electrons, outweighing the shielding effect of the full 1s shell of Oxygen.
What describes bonding electrons in a polar covalent bond?
Polar covalent bonds are just like other covalent bonds except the fact that one of the elements in that is highly electronegative. Hence it is able to attract the shared pair of electrons towards itself.
What aspects of an atom determine how an atom will bond to another atom?
the outermost electrons of an atom. these are called valence electrons. atoms are also grouped in the periodic table based on their valence electrons. to complete a full outermost shell there must be 8 electrons. hydrogen has 1 valence electron. and oxygen has 7. they are able to bond together because of how many valence electrons they have.
What does oxidized mean?
The meaning of oxidizing is generally able to oxidize, to cause an oxidation. It can be thought of in several ways:the addition of oxygen, or more generally an electronegative elementthe removal of hydrogenthe loss of electrons.
What water molecules determines its chemistry and thus the chemistry of life?
Water molecules are polar covalent molecules, meaning that the two hydrogens share their electrons with the oxygen, but the electrons "spend more time with" the oxygen. This is because oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, and attrcts electrons more strongly. Since the concentration of electrons is greater around the Oxygen, the Water molecule is slightly negatively charged at the oxygen end, and slightly positively charged at the hydrogen end. This polarity allows water molecules to dissolve compounds very easily, because they can strongly attract polar ends of other molecules. This helps your body with all of the chemistry it does to eat and function. In addition to polarity, water is more dense than ice. This means that ice will float on water. If this was not true, than many animals would never have been able to live and grow in watery environments, and life on earth may never have become larger than microscopic organisms.
Why non-metal things don't attract to magnets?
There are very few non metallic materials that are magnetic or para-magnetic (attracted to magnets). The primary reason is that the outer electrons need to all spin or be able to spinn in the same direction. Only metals have appropriate electrons. That is why they are called metals.
What is the sea of electrons and what purpose gives metal?
the actom is made up of nucleus with negative electrons revovling around it.Molecules may consist of like atoms, as in oxygen,or of unlike atoms ,as in cabon dioxide. Different Molecules form different matters. the sea of electrons in metal are able to conduct electricity.
How can a firm attract additional customers by offering better services at lower price?
even if u try to sale ur goods at free of cost.... some customers tendency u vl never able to change
Do you need oxygen during an earthquake?
Yes. But no more than you would need at any other time of stress or fear (in other words unless there is a fire you should be able to get all the oxygen your body needs from the atmosphere by breathing as normal during an earthquake and no additional source of oxygen would be required).
