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- From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: alchemy (was: Re: Dracula the Alchemist)
- Message-ID: <Jan.22.13.48.09.1993.4613@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:48:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.055826.12642@sobeco.com> <83950164@otter.hpl.hp.com> <JOSHUA.93Jan21145128@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
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- In article <JOSHUA.93Jan21145128@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>, joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- > this is a seductive idea; Ia lwys thought, though, that the properties of an
- > element were caused by their nuclear makeup (deuterium, for instance,
- > behaves more like hydrogen than it does like helium).
- > the person who helped me out with a lot of this was, BTW, by profession
- > an electrical engineer type or something like that. he seemed to think
- > that the change was nuclear in nature.
-
- The chemical properties of an element are determined by their
- electronic structure. The electronic structure is in turn determined
- by the number of protons in the nucleus. Thus isotopes of an element,
- which have differing numbers of neutrons but the same number of
- protons, have the same chemical properties. Electrical neutrality will
- in general be preserved, i.e., same number electrons and protons.
-
- Deuterium and tritium are isotopes of hydrogen, which have special
- names because of their *nuclear* properties.
-
- your friendly nuclear physicist,
- Lorenzo
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