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Atoms interact with each other through the formation of chemical bonds. One type of chemical bond is an ionic bond. Ionic bonds result from the attraction between oppositely charged ions. For example, sodium cations (positively charged ions) and chlorine anions (negatively charged ions) are connected via ionic bonds in sodium chloride, or table ...
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- Rutherford Planetary Model
- Bohr Model
- Electron Cloud Model
At the start of the 20th century, J.J. Thomson did experiments to learn about the atom. He showed that positively-charged and negatively-charged particles made up atoms. What he was not sure about was how they fit together. His idea at the time was that the negative electrons were stuck into a positive sphere. He imagined that the atom looked like ...
Scientists’ understanding of the atom changed in 1911. This was due to the gold foil experiment done by Ernest Rutherford and his team. In their work, they saw that the positive charge of atoms seemed to be concentrated at their centres. Rutherford called this the nucleus. He also predicted that the electrons would orbit the nucleus, like planets a...
Rutherford’s planetary model explained a lot. But it didn’t answer some questions that scientists still had. They wondered where the electrons actually were. Could their location be predicted? They also wondered why the orbiting electrons didn’t lose energy and crash into the nucleus. Luckily, Danish scientist Niels Bohrwas trying to find those ans...
The Bohr Model quickly became popular. We still use it today because it helps us understand how and why atoms interact with each other. But scientists were not finished trying to understand how atoms look. In 1926, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger took Bohr’s model a step further. He proposed a model which described the likelihood of finding an...
Follow the tutorial to understand how individual atoms—the basis of all matter—are composed of subatomic particles such as electrons, protons, and neutrons. Investigate the three types of particles, their properties (such as mass and charge), and relative locations.
See how two hydrogen atoms interact with each other to create a covalent bond. Learn about trends in the periodic table and how electrostatic potential energy determines the bond length. Also, learn about naming conventions for covalent compounds.
When two or more atoms chemically bond with each other, the resultant chemical structure is a molecule. The familiar water molecule, H 2 O, consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. These bond together to form water, as Figure 2.8 illustrates.
In this video, we will learn about the elements that make up our universe and about atoms, which are the simplest unit of those elements. We’ll look at what happens when atoms come together and at how we write and describe the combinations. To start off, let’s have a quick look at the structure of atoms. Atoms are extremely small.
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To understand how elements come together, we must first discuss the smallest component or building block of an element, the atom. An atom is the smallest unit of matter that retains all of the chemical properties of an element. For example, one gold atom has all of the properties of gold in that it is a solid metal at room temperature.