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The main determinant is the number of electrons in the outer shell.
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What is the main reason of how atoms combine?
Atoms combine to form compounds. The reason atoms combine is because the two ports that they both use to connect matches in a way.
What is formed when you combine atoms together?
atoms combine to give molecules
Are needed for atoms to combine?
Bonds are needed in order for atoms to combine
When atoms combine what do they gain or lose?
They gain or lose electrons, while the atoms combine.
What are atoms that chemically combine called?
Atoms that chemically combine form a molecule.
What was the result of the discovered how atoms combine into molecules?
What was the result of the discovered how atoms combine into molecules
Can atoms combine to form new atoms?
Atoms combine to form new atoms in the cores of stars. It is possible but quite difficult to combine them in atom smashers on this planet. That is how the trans Uranium elements have been produced.
Why do atoms want to combine?
Atoms combine in order to become stable, which for most atoms means having 8 valence electrons.
What two atoms combine during the process of corrosion?
The two atoms that combine are a metal atom and an oxygen atom.
When two atoms combine by transferring electrons it is a(n)?
When two atoms combine by transferring electrons, it is a(n) _____ bond.
Do molecules combine to make atoms?
Not really. Molecules are combinations of atoms formed when they share electrons.
Do atoms of different elements combine the same?
they combine with themselves atoms of different elements connot combine with each other wothout making a new molecule
