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So the correct statement is not quite that “electrons are point-like” but that “electrons are not known not to be point-like”. The outer layer of electrons of atoms (valence electrons) have many interesting behaviours, and all of these behaviours are related to chemistry. It is a veritable cliche borne of quantum theory’s founding fathers that to utter an understanding of atomic reality based on quantum theory is to reveal one’s ignorance. Nor do I find it convincing to blame the failure to explain these things on the mathematical limitations of the audience. In any case, the equations we use give correct predictions for atoms and how they behave; the issue in question is how you interpret what the equations signify, which is inevitably ambiguous.

Most of the land of the community — analogous to the realm of the electrons — contains crops but no houses. One of the most advanced uses of radioisotopes in medicine is the positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, which detects the activity in the body of a very small injection of radioactive glucose, the simple sugar that cells use for energy.

In other words, an atom of hydrogen is a unit of hydrogen—the smallest amount of hydrogen that can exist. When you consume dairy products your digestive system breaks down the food into components small enough to cross into the bloodstream. First, when someone says to you “an object has zero size”, what they really mean is that “if this thing has a size, it is too small for us to currently observe.

The radiologist then inserts tiny radioactive “seeds” into the blood vessels that supply the tumors.

The elements in the human body are shown in [link], beginning with the most abundant: oxygen (O), carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and nitrogen (N).

The number of negatively-charged electrons that “spin” around the nucleus at close to the speed of light equals the number of protons. First, I’d have to draw the nucleus thousands of times smaller, and electrons millions of times smaller, than I have, in which case you wouldn’t see them on the picture at all. Second, the nucleus (and the protons and neutrons that make it up) is also very tiny, though larger than the electrons; its size has been measured, and is about 10,000 to 100,000 times smaller in diameter than its atom. I would suggest that the failure to and the difficulty in “explaining” the behavior of atoms is that we really don’t know what it is. Just as a magnet sticks to a steel refrigerator because their opposite charges attract, the positively charged protons attract the negatively charged electrons.Answer: it is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom, which under simple circumstances equals the number of electrons that surround the nucleus. An isotope is one of the different forms of an element, distinguished from one another by different numbers of neutrons. Magnesium’s 12 electrons are distributed as follows: two in the first shell, eight in the second shell, and two in its valence shell. link] shows two models that can help you imagine the structure of an atom—in this case, helium (He). Now the problem is that what is really going on does not have any intuitive picture to go with it, and people interpret it differently.