Sentences with phrase «outermost electron»

Eventually each atom's outermost electron detaches and enters the nanotube through a process called quantum tunnelling.

On one side are metals like beryllium, which can give away all their outermost electrons to form ionic bonds.

Given that an atom's chemical properties depend upon the behaviour of its outermost electrons, says Stroud, the laser pulse technique could possibly be used to control chemical reactions.

In a traditional solar panel, silicon atoms are struck by sunlight and the atoms» outermost electrons absorb energy from some of these wavelengths of sunlight, causing the electrons to get excited.

The two methods are complementary — Krausz's involving the dynamics of inner electrons, Corkum and Villeneuve's working on the outermost electrons.

While the outermost electrons on adjacent copper atoms interact with one another strongly, they ordinarily stay locked in place, stuck in a «quantum mechanical traffic jam» with nowhere to go, Davis said.

Not exact matches

The number of electrons in the outermost shell, and its distance from the nucleus and the other shells, are the main factors that determine an element's chemical behaviour.

Here the outermost shell electron is located at such a large distance from the atomic nucleus that the radius of the atom is blown up by a factor of about 1000.

Since it is the outermost orbital electrons of atoms that determine the physical properties of matter, the missing electron causes dramatic changes in the physical properties.