states and changes of matter
Across
- 2. formed through gaining or losing electrons to have 8 electrons
- 3. central
- 4. variants of a particular chemical element that have the same number of protons
- 7. chemical structure with an uneven distribution of electron density
- 9. group of chemical elements
- 10. chemical elements located on the upper right side of the periodic table
- 15. the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom
- 16. symbolic representation of a substance's composition
- 17. negatively charged particles located in the outermost electron shell
Down
- 1. a link formed when two nonmetal atoms share pairs of valence electrons
- 5. visual representation of an atom's valence electrons
- 6. smallest unit of an element
- 8. only one type of atom
- 11. the smallest particle
- 12. positively charged metal ions and a shared sea of valence electrons
- 13. a class of chemical elements
- 14. when one atom transfers valence electrons to another