BIO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sulfur, Valence Electron

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22 Jan 2019
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It is important to understand why atoms interact with one another, or maybe why they don"t interact with one another. There are six fundamental elements that all living things have: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, hydrogen. Matter and energy are the same: they are just different manifestations of it. Not all organisms have the same amount of the six fundamental elements. Isotopes are atoms that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons. This theory essentially describes how electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom: it explains why atoms interact with one another. All atoms follow this rule: you have the nucleus of the atom. Then you have the first shell, which only holds two electrons. The third shell also can only hold eight. Covalent bonds two atoms share pairs of electrons. Ionic bonds one atom donates one or more electrons to another atom, forming oppositely charged ions that attract each other.

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