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2007-02-04 21:29:18 · 8 answers · asked by Oladipo T 1 in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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Chemical reactions only involve electrons moving from atomic orbitals into new molecular orbitals which are created between the bonded atoms. Nuclear reactions do not involve electrons and occur through the collisions of atomic nuclei instead.

2007-02-04 23:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide, to produce different products than the initial particles. In principle a reaction can involve more than two particles colliding, but such an event is exceptionally rare. If the particles collide and separate without changing, the process is called an elastic collision rather than a reaction.

A chemical reaction is a process that results in the interconversion of chemical substances [1]. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants. Chemical reactions are characterized by a chemical change, and they yield one or more products which are, in general, different from the reactants. Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that strictly involve the motion of electrons in the forming and breaking of chemical bonds, although the general concept of a chemical reaction, in particular the notion of a chemical equation, is applicable to transformations of elementary particles, as well as nuclear reactions. On the classical definition, therefore, there are only two types of chemical reaction: redox reactions and acid-base reactions. The former involve the motion of lone electrons and the latter of an electron pair. This electron pair is called a deuce pair.

2007-02-04 21:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by jeonha_09 2 · 0 0

A chemical reaction is when two or more atoms join together to create a molecule, or when a molecule breaks apart to create smaller molecules or individual atoms. Quite often, both of these things happen during chemical reactions. The atoms themselves do not change; it is how the atoms are joined together that change. An example of this is burning sugar in air. Sugar is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen joined together. When it burns, the atoms break apart and join with more oxygen in the air to create carbon dioxide and water vapour. A nuclear reaction is similar, except it is the atoms themselves that change. One kind of atom (an element) can be changed to a different element entirely by changing the number of protons in its nucleus, either by forcing the nuclus to break apart into two nuclei (this is called nuclear fission, and is done in nuclear reactors to produce energy) or by forcing two or more nuclei to join together to become one. An example of this happens in the sun, where hydrogen atoms are joined by nuclear fusion to create helium atoms and energy.

2016-03-18 01:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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a nuclear reaction is when a atome spleats. a chemical reaction is when a substance changes its nature.

2016-04-08 22:00:10 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0 0

The same because nuclear deals in chemical, but the nuclear reaction is broaden scale huge,but chemical laboratory is another story to tell if worst is concern.

2007-02-04 21:38:09 · answer #5 · answered by mario t. reoyan 3 · 0 1

In nulear reactions the element get transmutedinto other element. but in chemical reactions number of atoms remain same in chemical reactions...

2014-03-17 04:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by Tooba 1 · 0 0

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2007-02-04 21:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 3 1

chemical reactions take place in the electrom shells, nuclear involve the nuclei.

2007-02-04 21:32:53 · answer #8 · answered by David B 6 · 0 0

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