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Modifier D is used to show the mass number of the atom being considered, this being the total number of neutrons and protons considered to be present in the nucleus. The number of protons defines the element, but the number of neutrons in atoms of a given element may vary. Any atomic species defined by specific values of atomic number and mass number is termed a nuclide. Atoms of the same element but with difierent atomic masses are termed isotopes, and the mass number can be used to designate specific isotopes. 

T, F The number of protons defines the atomic number and the nuclear charge for an element. Neutrons do not have any charge. 

The ratio of neutrons to protons defines a band of stability that includes the stable nuclei. 

Each of carbon s isotopes contains 6 protons. 6 protons define carbon., 2C (carbon-12) contains 6 neutrons, 13C (carbon-13) contains 7 neutrons, and HC (carbon-14) contains 8 neutrons. 

If initial protonation occurs directly at the alkyne then a ra 5-vinyl ligand is produced, and subsequent further protonation produces the tra 5-alkene. The key features of this reaction are (i) that no C-C single bond is formed, and thus the initial site of protonation defines the stereochemistry of the alkene and (ii) hydrido-species are an essential requirement for the preferential formation of c/s-alkenes, since this is the pathway by which protonation generates cw-vinyl species. 

The periodic table of the elements (A Figure 4.9) lists all known elements according to their atomic numbers. Each element is represented by a unique chemical symbol, a one- or two-letter abbreviation for the element that appears directly below its atomic number on the periodic table. The chemical symbol for helium is He for aluminum, Al and for uranium, U. The chemical symbol and the atomic number always go together. If the atomic number is 13, the chemical symbol must be Al. If the atomic number is 92, the chemical symbol must be U. This is just another way of saying that the number of protons defines the element. 

As first realized in 1909 (Rutherford 1911), atoms are composed of a dense nnclens, which is made up of protons and neutrons around which electrons orbit. The reactivity of an atom is defined by the electrons. The number of electrons in a nentral atom is defined by the number of protons (the number of protons equal the number of electrons in neutral atoms) with the number of protons defining the element (Carbon has six protons). The number of neutrons is generally equal to the number of protons, bnt it can differ. 

SIMS can be considered a direct technique in that the information of interest is derived from the mass of the secondary ions measured. As outlined in Section 2.1.1.1, the mass of an atom is defined by the number of protons and neutrons within the nucleus. Also mentioned in Section 2.1.1.1 is the fact that the number of protons defines the element (no two elements have the same number of protons) and hence its atomic number (Z). The number of neutrons is roughly the same as that of the number of protons with most elements exhibiting a distribution in the number of neutrons. These are the isotopes which, terrestrially, follow a more or less fixed distribution with the average referred to as the natural abundance of the isotopes (listed in Appendix A.2). Note The term more or less is used as slight variations are noted according to various physical and/or chemical fi actionation processes (Coplen 2002). Molecular mass is simply the sum of the masses of the isotopes of the elements that makes up the molecule. SIMS is thus... 

If all atoms are composed of the same subatomic particles, what makes the atoms of one element different from those of another The answer is the number of these particles. The most important number to the identity of an atom is the number of protons in its nucleus. The number of protons defines the element. For example, an atom with 2 protons in its nucleus is a helium atom, an atom with 6 protons in its nucleus is a carbon atom (Figure 2.8 ), and an atom with 92 protons in its nucleus is a uranium atom. The number of protons in an atom s nucleus is its atomic number and is given the symbol Z. The atomic numbers of known elements range from 1 to 116 (although additional elements may still be discovered), as shown in the periodic table of the elements (Figure 2.9 ). In the periodic table, described in more detail in Section 2.7, the elements are arranged so that those with similar properties are in the same column. 

Hj, H2 and H. The pemuitation (12) (where S denotes space-fixed position labels) is defined in this approach as pemuiting the nuclei that are in positions 1 and 2, and the pemuitation (123) as replacing the proton in position 1 by the proton in position 2 etc. With this definition the effect of first doing (12) and then doing (123) can be drawn as... 

If we were to define the operations of the point group as also rotating and reflecting the (p.q.r) axis system (in which case the axes would be tied to the positions of the nuclei), we would obtain a different multiplication table. We could call this the nuclear-fixed axis convention. To implement this the protons in the o, O2 and planes in figure Al.4.2 would be numbered H, H2 and respectively. With this convention the operation would move the a plane to the position in space originally occupied by the 02 plane. If we follow such a C3 operation by the reflection (in the plane containing Ft ) we find that, in the nuclear-fixed axis convention ... 

An acid was once defined simply as a substance which produces hydrogen ions, or protons. However, the simple proton, H , is never found under ordinary conditions, and this definition required amendment. Bronsted and, independently, Lowry, therefore redefined an acid as a susbstance able to donate protons to other molecules or ions, and a base as a substance capable of accepting such protons. If we consider hydrogen chloride, HCl, as an example, the HCl molecule is essentially covalent, and hydrogen chloride (gas or liquid) contains no protons. But anhydrous hydrogen chloride in benzene will react with anhydrous ammonia ... 

We have seen that a base can be defined as combining with a proton and, therefore, requires at least one lone pair of electrons. A more general definition of acids and bases, due to G. N. Lewis, describes a base as any species (atom, ion or molecule) which can donate an electron pair, and an acid as any species which can accept an electron pair— more simply, a base is an electron-pair donor, an acid an electron-pair acceptor. Some examples of Lewis acids and bases are ... 

In such tables, typical chemical shifts are assigned to standard structure fragments (e.g., protons in a benzene ring). Substituents in these blocks (e.g., substituents in ortho, meta, or para positions) are assumed to make independent additive contributions to the chemical shift. These additive contributions are listed in a second series of tables. Once the tables are defined, the method is easy to implement, does not require databases, and is extremely fast. Predictions for a molecule with 50 atoms can be made in less than a second. On the other hand, it requires that the parent structure and the substituents are tabulated, and it considers no interaction... 

Here i is now a double bond up to the seventh sphere (D,7 ) of non-rotatablc bonds centered on the proton, Td is the distance of the proton from the center of the double bond, and is the angle, in radians, between the plane defined by the bond and the distance q, (Figure 10.2-6a). 

The number of protons in an atom defines what element it is. For example carbon atoms have six protons, hydrogen atoms have one, and oxygen atoms have eight. The number of protons in an atom is referred to as the atomic number of that element. The number of protons in an atom also determines the chemical behavior of the element. 

If we know the moles of A and the number of reaction units associated with A and B, then we can calculate the moles of B. Note that a conservation of reaction units, as defined by equation 2.3, can only be applied between two species. There are five important principles involving a conservation of reaction units mass, charge, protons, electron pairs, and electrons. 

A useful definition of acids and bases is that independently introduced by Johannes Bronsted (1879-1947) and Thomas Lowry (1874-1936) in 1923. In the Bronsted-Lowry definition, acids are proton donors, and bases are proton acceptors. Note that these definitions are interrelated. Defining a base as a proton acceptor means an acid must be available to provide the proton. For example, in reaction 6.7 acetic acid, CH3COOH, donates a proton to ammonia, NH3, which serves as the base. 

Equivalent Weights Acid-base titrations can be used to characterize the chemical and physical properties of matter. One simple example is the determination of the equivalent weighf of acids and bases. In this method, an accurately weighed sample of a pure acid or base is titrated to a well-defined equivalence point using a mono-protic strong acid or strong base. If we assume that the titration involves the transfer of n protons, then the moles of titrant needed to reach the equivalence point is given as... 

Since the actual number of protons transferred between the analyte and titrant is uncertain, we define the analyte s equivalent weight (EW) as the apparent formula weight when = 1. The true formula weight, therefore, is an integer multiple of the calculated equivalent weight. 

Liquid Helium-4. Quantum mechanics defines two fundamentally different types of particles bosons, which have no unpaired quantum spins, and fermions, which do have unpaired spins. Bosons are governed by Bose-Einstein statistics which, at sufficiently low temperatures, allow the particles to coUect into a low energy quantum level, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensation. Fermions, which include electrons, protons, and neutrons, are governed by Fermi-DHac statistics which forbid any two particles to occupy exactly the same quantum state and thus forbid any analogue of Bose-Einstein condensation. Atoms may be thought of as assembHes of fermions only, but can behave as either fermions or bosons. If the total number of electrons, protons, and neutrons is odd, the atom is a fermion if it is even, the atom is a boson. 

Because there are two changes ia material composition near the active region, this represents a double heterojunction. Also shown ia Figure 12 is a stripe geometry that confines the current ia the direction parallel to the length of the junction. This further reduces the power threshold and makes the diffraction-limited spreading of the beam more symmetric. The stripe is often defined by implantation of protons, which reduces the electrical conductivity ia the implanted regions. Many different stmctures for semiconductor diode lasers have been developed. 

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