Are metallic structures made of ions or atoms?
Answer:
Metallic structures are made of atoms.
The electrons are not removed from the atoms so they are not ions. The electrons are free to move around, but that is because the energy levels in a metal shift because of Pauli's exclusion principle and they form a band of energy levels. Thus all electrons belong to all of the atoms and can travel around.
It ends up being like if 8 atoms had 8 electrons being shared, each one would have one, but not exactly, but over time. But metals have quintillions of electrons or some huge number. They're all shared evenly though ignoring slight fluctuations.
Also, Sodium atoms are metals, sodium ions are part of salts or ionic compounds. Sodium metal will eat through your skin or blow up in water.
Sodium has the electronic structure 1s22s22p63s1. When sodium atoms come together, ... Is a metal made up of atoms or ions
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metallic structures made of ions
and ions are atoms
so metallic structures made of atoms
Atoms.
Metallic structures are made of molecules of whatever metal is being used. Of course the molecules are made up of ions bonded together eg iron, oxygen, silicon, chromium etc.
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