If an atom had no electrons what would happen to photons that came near the atom?
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Not much of an atom if it can't hold onto its electron!
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No. A photon is both massless and has no electric charge - any interaction with a magnetic field would be impossible.
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Neutrons do not have atoms, in fact they are particles that make up the nuclei of atoms along with protons.
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What do you mean by 'photon locked into an electron'? I have never seen this usage and am a physics PhD student.
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Gaining an electron...
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Atoms have what are called "orbitals" which are sorts of energy states that electrons can acheive.  A certain set of orbitals are considered the ground state, which is to say that a neutral atom (meaning the atom has as many electrons as protons) will be at its lowest energy state when all electrons occupy the ground state orbitals.  However, an electron can acquire extra energy which will raise the electron to a higher orbital.  This can be done by heat or light.  When an electron is elevated to a higher orbital, it is unstable, and it will eventually drop.  When it drops back down to groundd state, it will release a photon which has a specific amount of energy--the difference in enrgy between the higher and lower orital.\n\nEnergy in a photon relates to its wavelength, and wavelength relates to color.  Hence, for a given type of atom, the transition between two orbitals (which is set by the nucleus involving physical chemistry matters that are way too complex to speel out here) will always require a certain amount of energy, and the relaxation of an electron between those states will always release a photon of a specific color.
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Most of them are.  But if a photon collides with an atom, it is absorbed and raises the energy level of the atom.  When the energy level of that (or any) atom decreases, the energy difference is emitted as one or more photons.  Its direction will be unrelated to the direction of any incoming photon.
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No Way Man!  Photon-photon scattering?  Highly dubious.  Photons don't have charge. They don't self-interact, that's why the electro-weak theory works so well... right?\n\nResponse to Dr. Bob's response:\n\nI agree that this process occurs (although a photon that decays into a e+e- pair has to be close to another mass so momentum can be transfered; isolated photons cant decay into e+e-).  But in such a case, would you really say that "one light ray has bounced off another?" I'd say that it was "bouncing" off the electron/positron pairs.  Just semantics I suppose.
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Not by bombardment with radiowaves, but bombardment with subatomic particles can remove orbital extra-nuclear electrons (there are no electrons in the nucleus), and can cause instability in the nucleus that leads in some cases to an ejection of neutrons from the nucleus or even disintegration of the nucleus.
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None. electron hole pairs is simply absence of electron in an atom or molecule. Black hole is a collapsed matter in the Universe due to strong gravity.
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No, because photons have no net charge.
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Electron is simply the smallest and ligthest subatomic particle inside every atoms. as you know, atom consists of protons (positively charged), neutrons (no charge) and electrons (negatively charged). you can imagine atoms to be like a planet which has meteors orbiting around it. the planet represent the nucleus which consists of the protons and the neutrons. and the meteors around are representing the electrons. due to its light weight, electrons move around in an incredible speed around the nucleus. however, electrons do not escaped from the nucleus because they are bounded by forces which keep them in tracks. you can check it out in www.wikipedia.com if you need more info on electrons :D . GL for ur science fair anw.
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Photons have no mass, therefore no weight.
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Empty places in the outer electron shells allow electrons to freely pass from one molecule to another.
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Photon is pure energy .Thus it cannot be destructed .The last photon from a flashlight (also all the rest) gets converted to other forms like heat that gets transferred.
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A photon, which is a quanta of evergy below which you cannot go-this is the smallest, and only, particle which carries radiant energy.  The photon is the energetic equivalent of the quark in matter.
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How can you have something if nothings there? Atoms are made up or protons, neutrons, and quarks which are the basic building blocks of matter. Well at least until someone discovers there made up of something else lol!