No. A gas atom will most likely change its speed everytime it collides with another gas atom. The AVERAGE speed of an individual atom (or molecule, depending on the gas) depends on the temperature. This is not specific to neon; all gases tend to behave similarly.
No, an atom of neon has 10 electrons while a chloride ion (CI-) has 18 electrons. Neon is a noble gas with a full outer electron shell, whereas a chlorine ion gains an electron to attain a full outer shell and has a negative charge.
No. Think of it this way - say you had 20 basketballs and 20 bowling balls. Will the basketballs weigh the same as the bowling balls? No, because an individual basketball weighs less than a bowling ball, so if you have equal numbers of them, they aren't going to weigh the same. Now take 6.02 × 1023 atoms (one mole) of neon and 6.02 × 1023 atoms of aluminum. One atom of neon is going to weigh less than one atom of aluminum, so equal numbers of them aren't going to weigh the same.
For Mg to acquire the same electron configuration as Neon, it must lose 2 of its valence electrons. It thus obtains a 2+ charge. The 2 electrons that it loses can go to an accepting atom, such as O, S, Cl, etc. to form an ionic bond, where the accepting atom has a negative charge.
It accepts one electron.
No. The atomic number ( number of atoms) for oxygen is 8. The atomic number for NE (neon) is 10. :)
No, a neon-22 atom has the same number of electrons as a neon-20 atom, which is 10 electrons. The difference between neon-22 and neon-20 lies in their number of neutrons, with neon-22 having 12 neutrons and neon-20 having 10 neutrons.
If a sodium atom loses an electron to become a Na+ ion, its electron configuration will be the same as neon (1s22s22p6). Both sodium and neon have stable electron configurations.
The atomic number is the number of protons in an atom. The number of protons in an atom is what gives the atom its elemental identity. The number of neutrons can change resulting in different isotopes of the same element. The number of electrons can change, resulting in different valence states of the same element. If the number of protons changes, then an atom of neon is no longer neon. So the atomic number of neon is always 10, because neon always has 10 protons.
No, an atom of neon has 10 electrons while a chloride ion (CI-) has 18 electrons. Neon is a noble gas with a full outer electron shell, whereas a chlorine ion gains an electron to attain a full outer shell and has a negative charge.
No. Think of it this way - say you had 20 basketballs and 20 bowling balls. Will the basketballs weigh the same as the bowling balls? No, because an individual basketball weighs less than a bowling ball, so if you have equal numbers of them, they aren't going to weigh the same. Now take 6.02 × 1023 atoms (one mole) of neon and 6.02 × 1023 atoms of aluminum. One atom of neon is going to weigh less than one atom of aluminum, so equal numbers of them aren't going to weigh the same.
The value of the nuclear charge on a neon atom is determined by the number of protons in its nucleus. Neon has an atomic number of 10, which means it has 10 protons in its nucleus. Therefore, the nuclear charge of a neon atom is +10, as each proton carries a positive charge of +1.
Yes, when a sodium atom reacts with a chlorine atom to form a compound (sodium chloride), it does not produce neon or argon. Neon and argon are noble gases with stable electron configurations, while sodium and chlorine react to achieve stable electron configurations by forming an ionic bond in sodium chloride.
For Mg to acquire the same electron configuration as Neon, it must lose 2 of its valence electrons. It thus obtains a 2+ charge. The 2 electrons that it loses can go to an accepting atom, such as O, S, Cl, etc. to form an ionic bond, where the accepting atom has a negative charge.
A fluorine atom gains one atom in order to achieve the same electron configuration as neon. In doing so, the fluorine atom forms a fluoride ion with a 1- charge with the formula F-. As a negatively charged ion, it can form ionic bonds with various positively charged ions.
it shows how many protons are present in an atom
The root-mean-square (rms) speed of a gas molecule is proportional to the square root of its temperature and inversely proportional to its molar mass. Since neon and argon gases are at the same temperature, the ratio of their rms speeds will be the square root of the ratio of their molar masses. Therefore, to find the rms speed of argon atoms, you need to calculate the square root of the ratio of the molar masses of argon to neon (molar mass of argon/molar mass of neon) and multiply it by the rms speed of neon.
When aluminum (Al, #13) reacts, it loses its three valence electrons to achieve the same electron configuration as neon (Ne, #10.) That configuration is 1s22s22p6. So yes, Al+3 has the same configuration as neon.