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| Any naturally occurring inorganic solid that possesses an orderly crystalline structure and a well defined chemical composition |
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Naturally Occurring
Solid Substance
Orderly Crystalline Structure
Well defined chemical composition
Generally inorganic |
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| Building Blocks of Minerals |
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Contain Protons and Neutrons located in the Nucleus
Electrons orbit the Nucleus |
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Located in the nucleus
Positive Charge
Very Dense |
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Located in the nucleus
No Charge
Very Dense |
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Orbit the nucleus
Negative charge
A lot less smaller, less dense, then protons and neutrons |
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Regions where electrons orbit
Each shell has it's own energy level and can hold a specific number of electrons |
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| The outermost principle shell holds the valence electrons |
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The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom
Determines chemical nature of atom |
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| Total number of protons and neutrons in an atom. |
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| One atom gives up one or more valence electrons to another atom forming an ion |
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| Positively and Negatively charged atoms |
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| The atom that loses electrons |
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| The atom that gains electrons |
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Chemical bond
The sharing of a pair of electrons between atoms |
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| The valence electrons are free to move from one atom to another so that all atoms share the available valence electrons |
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| Atoms tend to combine in such a way that they each have eight electrons in their valence shells |
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