a chemistry question?

Question

Okaay... help me out a bit, can anyone explain this to me in lamen's terms:

AToms of an element are identical in mass and other properties from atoms of other elements.


bear with me...

Answer 1

Well, I think u have given a wrong statement:it should ideally have been atoms of the SAME element are identical in mass and other properties from atoms of other elemnts.If this is truethen it states that atoms of the same element have the same properties in terms of mass, weight and others but the atoms of different elements are different in mass, weight and other properties. if u didn't understand this, consider a banana and an apple, all bananas look similar to each other,that is that they are yellow in color, are usually of the same size and mostly have black patches on them, right??? Similarly cosider an apple. An apple is usually similar to other apples, all apples are red in color, they are of the same size, have a number of seeds.....ok? Now compare an apple with a banana, an apple is round whereas a banana is long and slender, and apple is red whereas a banana is yellow in color. thus all apples are similiar to each other and all bananas are similar to each other. In this way atoms of lets say, gold will be similar to EACH OTHER in mass , atomic structure and the atoms of hydrogen will be similar to each other in mass, size etc. etc. But atoms of hydrogen will be different to the atoms of gold . Understood? if u still have queries email me at [e-mail].

Answer 2

Atoms of different elements are not the same in properties and mass. However, atoms consist of electrons, protons, and neutrons that individually have the same properties and mass. Atoms of a particular element can vary as well. These are called Isotopes (two or more atoms having the same atomic number but different mass numbers.)

Answer 3

I think what this statement is trying to say is that Atoms of one element (such as oxygen) all have the same properties and mass, which is what separates them from all the other elements. However, this is not completely true. All oxygen atoms do not have the same mass or properties. Many elements have isotopes (atoms with a different number of neutrons). This different number of neutrons can sometimes affect things like magnetic properties.

I think you typed the question wrong.

Answer 4

it is self explanatory. What do you want us to explain!!! Every element has specific atom which is different from that of others. Atoms of a particular element are all the same. Bcoz they are atoms of that element. Like atoms of oxygen. They are all same.

Answer 5

ok im no chem major but here goes

that sounds kinda wrong to me? example oxygen atom and hydrogen atom.. oxy has 6 electrons/protons and hydrogen only has 1 proton how can that be identical in mass???

hydrogen loses its electron to be come H+
while oxygen usually gains 2 electrons to become O(2-)

are u sure u got that from a txtbook?
or i could be wrong here.. it has been 6 yers since i last touched chem lol

Answer 6

ok bearing.......

I'll start explaining now ok?

We don't know. Einstein broke his back and reputation about that during the last 30 years of his life.

He called it unified field theory.

There is a breaking point where quantum mechanics switches to 'common mechanics'. We still have no clue why, how or what to make of it.

Answer 7

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. Don't do your homework with a bear in the house!

I hope you are alright??

Or did your parents bust you doing homework on yahoo answers?

Answer 8

have the bear finish the question

Answer 9

I don't know what the hell that means.