chemistry
Across
- 5. a negatively charged subatomic particle.
- 7. a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction.
- 8. occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.
- 10. Cloud the system of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom.
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- 1. any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes.
- 2. stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron, but of opposite sign.
- 3. same as proton
- 4. Electron a single electron or one of two or more electrons in the outer shell of an atom that is responsible for the chemical properties of the atom.
- 6. the positively charged central core of an atom, consisting of protons and neutrons and containing nearly all its mass
- 9. the basic unit of a chemical element.