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- From: farris@neutrino.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Doping Mercury
- Keywords: Re: Doping Mercury
- Message-ID: <Jan.26.14.32.48.1993.11591@neutrino.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:32:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.155918.26579@linus.mitre.org>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Ah, Mr Tucker, we meet again. This time, I am in my guise as corrector
- of erroneous statements regarding physcis.
-
- In article <1993Jan25.155918.26579@linus.mitre.org>, tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
-
- :I don't know. It could look and act differently. Most doping in
- :the semiconductor realm affects electrical properties. Colin was
- :right about electrons controlling chemical reactions. However, it
- :is the Atomic number that determines whether a substance is a
- :particular element or not, this is from the number of protons
- :that it has. Electrons exist in the exact number as there are
- :protons in an unionized element.
-
- At best, there will be a slight imbalance of charge, whatever the
- materials. See a few posts back for what it would be like if you had a
- few grams of Hg in which all the atoms are singly ionized.
-
- ::most ionic substances exist as gases, eh?
- :
- :Ionic substances exist in all forms. An ion means the element
- :has a charge, it's either missing or has too many electrons.
- :An isotope means that it has an imbalance in nuetrons, like
- :deutirium. There are supposed to be as many nuetrons as there
- :are protons in a stable atom too, just as there are supposed
- :to be the same number of electrons as there are protons.
-
- No, no, no, no! This is absolutely wrong. An isotope is a member of a
- family of nuclei, all having the same number of protons, but differing
- numbers of neutrons. And in deuterium, there is *one* proton and *one*
- neutron.
-
- :are not ionized, they just have tendencies to gain or lose an
- :electron based upon their outer electron shells, when electricity
- :is applied, like normal shells consist of eight electrons, an atom
- :with seven in it's outer shell would want to gain one more to become
- :"more" stable; an atom with one electron in it's outer shell would want
- :to lose that electron to have a more stable electon configuration, but
- :only in the presence of excess energy like electricity or as in the solar
- :cell, impingent light.
-
- You've got a vague idea of what is going on, but you are a bit off. I
- will explain, if you like, but doping of semiconductors is not really
- relevant to the topic at hand, IMO. Nor was that long discussion of
- semiconductor circuit construction.
-
- your friendly physicist,
- Lorenzo
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