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plez help....thank you so much

2006-12-27 09:18:36 · 3 answers · asked by iloveyou (: 2 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties of the substance and is composed of two or more atoms; a group of like or different atoms held together by chemical forces.
A small particle; a tiny bit.

With the evolution of atomic theory, chemistry took on much greater definition: for the first time, chemists understood that the materials with which they worked were interacting on a level much too small to see. The effects, of course, could be witnessed, but the activities themselves involved the interactions of atoms in molecules. Just as an atom is the most basic particle of an element, a molecule is the basic particle of a compound. Whereas there are only about 90 elements that occur in nature, many millions of compounds are formed naturally or artificially. Hence the study of the molecule is at least as important to the pursuit of modern chemistry as the study of the atom. Among the most important subjects in chemistry are the ways in which atoms join to form molecules—not just the numbers and types of atoms involved, but the shape that they form together in the molecular structure.

2006-12-27 12:07:14 · answer #1 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1 0

do you mean atom or molecule? because the primary function of atoms is to react with certain atoms in order to reach the octec in order to be more stable, at least it is a noble gas (already reached the octect).
If your question is molecules, then what kind of molecules? enzymes? macromolecules? oxidants?

2006-12-27 09:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by Robotech 2 · 0 0

Imprecise question. Molecules are collections of atoms, that have various functions. You need to restate this question.

2006-12-27 09:43:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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