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Where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable during bombardment of alpha particles on beryllium
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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Physical stability and chemical stability are totally different and unrelated things, much like crown and crow.
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
Nowhere. This is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical one. Charge is conserved and no extra electrons were supplied.
The carbon nucleus is stable with respect to nuclear decay.
Chemical stability relates only to the behavior of electrons with respect to atoms. It has no place in this nuclear reaction.
Eventually the carbon nucleus may attract additional electrons from some external source, but that's nothing to do with stability of the nucleus. The nucleus does not require any electrons to be stable.
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The electrons are there, all around and intermingled with the nuclei. They maintain the requirement of charge neutrality but, at the temperatures in stellar cores, they don't do much else because there is too much thermal energy and entropy to stabilize complete atoms. So in studying reactions, we ignore them as we would a "spectator species" in an ordinary chemical reaction.
Until, that is, the star dies. Then the quantum mechanical characteristics of those electrons come to the fore in a big way, enabling the formation of white dwarfs. The electrons are ultimately important after all.
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
Nowhere. This is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical one. Charge is conserved and no extra electrons were supplied.
The carbon nucleus is stable with respect to nuclear decay.
Chemical stability relates only to the behavior of electrons with respect to atoms. It has no place in this nuclear reaction.
Eventually the carbon nucleus may attract additional electrons from some external source, but that's nothing to do with stability of the nucleus. The nucleus does not require any electrons to be stable.
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
Nowhere. This is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical one. Charge is conserved and no extra electrons were supplied.
The carbon nucleus is stable with respect to nuclear decay.
Chemical stability relates only to the behavior of electrons with respect to atoms. It has no place in this nuclear reaction.
Eventually the carbon nucleus may attract additional electrons from some external source, but that's nothing to do with stability of the nucleus. The nucleus does not require any electrons to be stable.
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
Nowhere. This is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical one. Charge is conserved and no extra electrons were supplied.
The carbon nucleus is stable with respect to nuclear decay.
Chemical stability relates only to the behavior of electrons with respect to atoms. It has no place in this nuclear reaction.
Eventually the carbon nucleus may attract additional electrons from some external source, but that's nothing to do with stability of the nucleus. The nucleus does not require any electrons to be stable.
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When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable?
Nowhere. This is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical one. Charge is conserved and no extra electrons were supplied.
The carbon nucleus is stable with respect to nuclear decay.
Chemical stability relates only to the behavior of electrons with respect to atoms. It has no place in this nuclear reaction.
Eventually the carbon nucleus may attract additional electrons from some external source, but that's nothing to do with stability of the nucleus. The nucleus does not require any electrons to be stable.
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The electrons are there, all around and intermingled with the nuclei. They maintain the requirement of charge neutrality but, at the temperatures in stellar cores, they don't do much else because there is too much thermal energy and entropy to stabilize complete atoms. So in studying reactions, we ignore them as we would a "spectator species" in an ordinary chemical reaction.
Until, that is, the star dies. Then the quantum mechanical characteristics of those electrons come to the fore in a big way, enabling the formation of white dwarfs. The electrons are ultimately important after all.
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The electrons are there, all around and intermingled with the nuclei. They maintain the requirement of charge neutrality but, at the temperatures in stellar cores, they don't do much else because there is too much thermal energy and entropy to stabilize complete atoms. So in studying reactions, we ignore them as we would a "spectator species" in an ordinary chemical reaction.
Until, that is, the star dies. Then the quantum mechanical characteristics of those electrons come to the fore in a big way, enabling the formation of white dwarfs. The electrons are ultimately important after all.
answered 4 hours ago
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The electrons are there, all around and intermingled with the nuclei. They maintain the requirement of charge neutrality but, at the temperatures in stellar cores, they don't do much else because there is too much thermal energy and entropy to stabilize complete atoms. So in studying reactions, we ignore them as we would a "spectator species" in an ordinary chemical reaction.
Until, that is, the star dies. Then the quantum mechanical characteristics of those electrons come to the fore in a big way, enabling the formation of white dwarfs. The electrons are ultimately important after all.
answered 4 hours ago
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The electrons are there, all around and intermingled with the nuclei. They maintain the requirement of charge neutrality but, at the temperatures in stellar cores, they don't do much else because there is too much thermal energy and entropy to stabilize complete atoms. So in studying reactions, we ignore them as we would a "spectator species" in an ordinary chemical reaction.
Until, that is, the star dies. Then the quantum mechanical characteristics of those electrons come to the fore in a big way, enabling the formation of white dwarfs. The electrons are ultimately important after all.
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A carbon nucleus with no electrons around it is stable. Charged, yes. Happy to grab electrons, yes. But it is stable and given time will likely find electrons to become neutral.
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