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The standard example for ionic bonding is sodium chloride, where the sodium atom loses one electron and the chlorine atom gains one electron. Magnesium oxide is formed by an identical process, but magnesium donates two electrons, and oxygen receives two electrons. In both cases, the number of electrons donated by the metal is the same as the number of electrons received by the non-metal. Consequently, there is the same number of metal ions as non-metal ions. Sodium chloride has the formula NaCl, and magnesium oxide has the formula MgO.
well ya know yesterday me & my fellow colleagues decided to have a debate when we where at Victors house, when my friend Neal let a little gas go and me and my fellow friends began to laugh. it was the funniest thing since Rush Limbaugh retired from that Ogor man sport television program, I had to take off my bottlecap glasses i was engaged with soo much laughter
The two key subjects in modern physics today are quantum physics and general relativity. Quantum physics gives us a picture of what's happening on the small scale (atoms, electrons, protons etc) while general relativity describes the massive things in the universe (galaxies, black holes etc). At the moment, the two theories contradict one another; when we marry the two together then we'll be part way to having a model which describes everything in physics. The quantum theory is all about UNCERTAINTY; the closer we look into the microscopic world the more "misty" our view becomes. We're taught at school that electrons in an atom orbit (that is, go around in a circular path) the nucleus like the moon orbits the Earth. This is not really a very accurate view of what happens. In quantum theory we imagine that there is a "cloud" around the nucleus representing probability. Where the cloud is thickest is where an electron is most likely to be. Most people think that if you knew where a particle is and how fast it's going then you can predict exactly where it will be in the future. In the Seventeenth Century, Sir Isaac Newton laid down the laws which allowed you to do this. These laws remained accepted until the first half of the Twentieth Century when quantum mechanics was first being worked on. The result of this work was that you could not predict anything exactly, you could only give probabilities for any particular outcome. What's even stranger is that nature stops you from knowing too much in the first place; if you know exactly where a particle (an electron, for instance) is you cannot possibly know how fast it's going. If you know exactly how fast it's going then you cannot possibly know whereabouts it is. It's like a conspiracy! But conspiracies in nature are just laws of physics. Naturally, you don't worry about these things in real life; these problems only happen on a microscopic scale. Here's one demonstration: If you fire an electron through two narrow and closely spaced slits in a screen, common sense tells you that if it goes through the screen it will through one or other of the holes. You can't tell which because if you put a detector over the slit, you stop it from going through; there is no way to detect which slit it goes through without stopping the electron altogether; this, of course, makes the experiment pointless! Now, if we put a photographic plate behind the slits and send one electron at a time at these slits we get what's called a DIFFRACTION PATTERN. If you throw two stones into a pond at the same time you get an interesting wave pattern as the two ripples interfere with each other; this is due to diffraction. But, diffraction patterns are only created by two or more sources. If each electron goes through only one slit at a time, how was the diffraction pattern (which requires twq sources) created? The answer has to be that the electron went through both slits at the same time! It interferes with itself! Half of the "probability cloud" of a particular electron goes through one slit and half through the other; only when the electron hits the plate does the "position probability cloud" shrink to make a small point on the film. This means we become certain about its position. Everything is made from particles like electrons so everything has its own probability cloud! Everything exists in many different positions, states, speeds etc. Only when we make an observation does the thing we're observing have definite values. This all sounds very strange but the thing is it works! Most modern appliances from CDs to PCs use this theory. The world really is that strange.
i don't know how much of this is actually confirmed...
1. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
2. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
3. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
6. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
7. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
8. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
9. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
10. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents who are present and don't die throughout the movie.
11. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
12. There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
13. It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
14. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour. (Now there's a thought for weight loss.)
15. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? (Bring the champagne to the party anyway.)
16. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
17. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
18. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. Polar bears are left-handed.
21. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (Makes me willing to give up chocolate bars.)
24. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
25. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
26. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
27. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
28. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
29. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
30. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. (So don't ride a donkey to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.)
31. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
32. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
33. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
34. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
35. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (We're not really batting our eyes.)
36. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses very letter in the English language.
37. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
38. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
39. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
40. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
41. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
42. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
43. China has more English speakers than the United States.
44. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Expert in torture?)
45. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
46. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters. (Does it fit on an envelope?)
47. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. (And you thought it was YOUR day!)
48. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
50. No president of the United States was an only child.
51. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
52. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
1. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
2. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
3. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
6. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
7. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
8. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
9. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
10. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents who are present and don't die throughout the movie.
11. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
12. There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
13. It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
14. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour. (Now there's a thought for weight loss.)
15. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? (Bring the champagne to the party anyway.)
16. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
17. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
18. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. Polar bears are left-handed.
21. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (Makes me willing to give up chocolate bars.)
24. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
25. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
26. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
27. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
28. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
29. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
30. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. (So don't ride a donkey to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.)
31. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
32. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
33. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
34. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
35. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (We're not really batting our eyes.)
36. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses very letter in the English language.
37. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
38. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
39. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
40. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
41. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
42. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
43. China has more English speakers than the United States.
44. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Expert in torture?)
45. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
46. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters. (Does it fit on an envelope?)
47. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. (And you thought it was YOUR day!)
48. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
50. No president of the United States was an only child.
51. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
52. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
@ nightbreed...there is a bridge...actually.. about four different formulas that bridge the gap between quantum physics and general relativity...it's smaller than protrons, quarks . It's called the STRING THEORY. It's an calcuable theory that involves space and time and other dimensions paralell to our own.
Check out the link...They are quietly finishing what Einstein started! IMO society is too caught up in thier cell phones, cars, computers, and playstations and X-Boxes to be interested...that sometimes includes me!
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/GraduateAdmissions/greene/greene.html
Check out the link...They are quietly finishing what Einstein started! IMO society is too caught up in thier cell phones, cars, computers, and playstations and X-Boxes to be interested...that sometimes includes me!
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/GraduateAdmissions/greene/greene.html
