why do atoms move around a molecule?

Question

Every time I see a cartoon of a molecule. I see atoms together to form a ball in the middle, and more atoms spinning around the atoms in the middle, like moons going around earth.

Why are they spinning around and what is making them spin?

Answer 1

the electrons around an atom are in an electormagnetic field that determines the velocity, length and shape of orbit in which they spin around the nucleus

Answer 2

those are the protons and neutrons in the middle. The electrons are the ones spinning. They have an "electrical charge" to them to keep them going. the colder something is, the slower they move and the warmer something is, the faster they move.

Atoms make up molecules. That why the common combo of h2o. Hydrogen and oxygen are atoms and when they combine, they make the molecule water.

there are two theories behind the "cartoon" like ball. but that's for another science lesson.

Answer 3

The electrons travel around the nucleus (protons and neutrons) of an atom because of electro-magnetic force. This is very much similar to how our planet travels around the sun. Every mass has a gravitational pull, depending on the size and density of the object. This causes objects to travel around it. The positive charge of protons pushes the electron just as much as the electron is pushing towards the nucleus. The forces together make the electron stay the same distance away, but due to the electro-magnetic pull, it has to go somewhere. That is why it travels around the nucleus without colliding with it or flying away from it.

Answer 4

Atoms are composed of a nucleus and electrons which revolves in an orbit around it. Atoms dont fly on the wing of probability . They fly on the wind of electrostatic gravity. What keeps them apart is the temperature energy in between them. That is why when you heat up atoms the mass structure expands in volume.And when you cool it it shrinks.
When there are several electrons revolving around nucleous, the nucleous also revlaves around each electrons at the same time.In order to do this the fulcrum between them moves on the surface of an imaginary cloud so tha the atomic components are always in equilibrium or stable condition.
This cloud is not really hapazard but depend on the themperature condition. This is why its refered as the probability Cloud.

Answer 5

The atoms don't orbit around a molecule.
some of atoms want to get an electron to complete their last orbit. So two this kind of atoms like Oxygen or Hydrogen would share one of their electrons to complete each other's orbit. In this sort of molecules, the electrons are orbiting around all atoms.
Some other materials want to give an electron to omit an orbit which has one electron. so these materials would give an electron to another atom, which need electron to be completed.
so they become as a ion. one of them positive and one of them negative. so they stick together because of the electromagnetic force. but there is no atom orbiting around others.

Answer 6

The basic building blocks of the "normal" matter that we see in the Universe are atoms, and combinations of atoms that we call molecules. We first consider atoms and then molecules. However, we shall see that although "normal matter" is composed of atoms and molecules, most of the matter in the Universe is not in the form of atoms or molecules, but rather in the form of a plasma. We discuss plasmas in the next section.

Constituents of Atoms
Atoms are composed of three classes of constituents, as illustrated in the following table.

Constituent Symbol Charge Mass
Electrons e- -1 9.1 x 10-28 g
Protons p+ +1 1836 x electron mass
Neutrons n 0 Approximately that of p+




Thus, most of the mass of atoms resides in the neutrons and protons which occupy the dense central region called the nucleus (see the Bohr atom below).

The number of protons (or the number of electrons) is called the atomic number for the atom. The total number of protons plus neutrons is called the atomic mass number for the atom. Atoms are electrically neutral because the number of negatively-charged electrons is exactly equal to the number of positively-charged protons. The number of neutrons is approximately equal to the number of protons for stable light nuclei, and is about 1-2 times the number of protons for the heavier stable nuclei.

Isotopes of an Element
Atoms having the same number of protons (and therefore the same number of electrons) but different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes of the element in question. Thus, the isotopes of an element have the same atomic number but differ in their atomic mass number. A compact notation for isotopes of an element is illustrated by the following examples.


In this notation the element is represented by its chemical symbol, the atomic number is denoted by a lower left subscript, the number of neutrons is denoted by a lower right subscript, and the atomic mass number is denoted by an upper left superscript (some of these superscripts and subscripts may be omitted, depending on the context).

Thus, the above symbols denote, respectively, the mass-235 and mass-238 isotopes of uranium (symbol U), and the mass-1,-2,and -3 isotopes of hydrogen (symbol H). The mass-2 isotope of hydrogen is also called deuterium and the mass-3 isotope is also called tritium.


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Answer 7

If i'm properly perfect right here, the atom (in a room temperature placing, therefore the metallic atom might want to be consistent in a sturdy state) might want to hover (if not being jostled via the different atoms and molecules interior the air round it) because it wouldn't have the right ability or warmth to "flow randomly".

Answer 8

its the electrons spining not the atoms and the spin in a molecule because of their negative charge and they are also super small-i know that doesn't sound tecnical but yeah they are small enough to move around in the atom and molecules

Answer 9

I believe you are talking about an Atom....
The middle is the Nucleus containing neutrons and protons,
The particals going around the nucleus are the electrons. They are held there by electromagnetic forces.....

Answer 10

These are simple representations and are not completely accurate. Take a basic Chemistry class to learn more.

(I think you mean "orbit" which isn't an accurate term in Chemistry but I understand your perspective. Spin is a more complicated subject and is covered in quantum mechanics.)