BIOL 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electron Shell, Atomic Number

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The chemistry that is the most important in biology revolves around a few important elements. Whatever the element, if you keep cutting it into ever smaller pieces, each of the pieces behaves exactly the same as any other piece. Whirling around the nucleus of every atom are negatively charged particles called electrons. Particles that have the same charge repel each other, those with opposite charges are attracted to each other. So far 90 elements have been discovered that are present in nature, and 25 can be made in a laboratory. Four elements make up more than 96% of your body: oxygen (65%), carbon (18. 5%), hydrogen (9. 5%), and nitrogen (3%) {may2010: other 6 are calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, trace amounts of 15 other elements are also found in the body (less than . 1%) Atom"s electrons determine how the atom bonds with other atoms.

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