Not sure where to post this, but i'll try here.
This is a serious question.
If Santa Claus existed, and could travel at any speed, what speed would he have to travel at to get to every house in the world in one night? say night lasts 15 hours...
It was my friend who asked me this...
Its not lazyness. It is beneficial for the the atoms in a covalent bond to "share" electrons. For example in Methane - CH4. Carbon has 4 outer electrons, hydrogen has 1. So in Methane, Carbon has 8 electrons in the outer shell, filling it. and with hydrogen sharing, it gains one. This means that...
A gas is such because, in the environment it is in, the temperature is above its boiling point. For example oxygen on earth. If you have a powder, then clearly it is a solid and will not disperse in the air the way a gas would.
You can look up boiling points on some periodic tables or the...
Oxygen is diatomic. It only needs to receive two electrons to be in a "stable" state like the noble gases, which have an outer electron shell of 8 - oxygen has 6. So when 2 hydrogen atoms come along, oxygen is quite happy to bond with these. This is called Oxidation.
Hello there, new to the forums, but it looked like a good place with knowledgeable folks so I've decided to join!
My topic today will be on Jupiters moon Europa.
Its just to gauge others ideas on this moon and the chances of it sustaining, or having the potential to sustain life.
The...