what part of an atom can be transferred from object to object?
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chemically: electrons\n\nphysically: nucleons and/or protons (alpha, beta or gamma ray for nuclear elements)
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To break up an atom, you have to add a significant amount of energy to it.  You can do this by bombarding it with sub atomic particles.  In an atomic reaction, neutrons drive the process.  Particle accelerators do this in research physics.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom
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They are more like the skiers than the chairs. When a skier sees an open chair, he jumps on it and is bound to it until he gets to a place where he can get off. This is true of electrons and atoms. The electron travels from atom to atom by waiting until it meets the right state to transfer.
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This depends on how many electrons the element has to lose or gain to complete its outer layer. If the element is on the right side of the periodic table then it will gain electrons. The left side will lose electrons. How many electrons can be determined by how far away the element is from the nearest side of the periodic table.\n\nTHere is of course more technical depth to this however this thumb rule will do. For more info type ionisation into wikipedia. that should help...
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Atoms are combinations of protons and neutrons with electrons flying around. They form the basic "elements" of matter.\n\nThe nucleus of an atom has protons and neutrons (except for hydrogen which has one proton). There are about the same number of protons and neutrons in each nucleus, although for larger nuclei (like uranium) there are more neutrons.\n\nAll of these particles have a variety of specific characteristics. For example an electron has a negative charge and a proton has a positive charge, while the neutron is neutral. The charge of the proton and electron are identical except for the sign.\n\nProtons and neutrons are both made of quarks. A proton has two "up" quarks and one "down" quark, while the neutron has two "down" quarks and one "up" quark. (The up and down are just names for these two types of quark, there is no physical significance to the name. They could have selected \nChocolate and Vanilla instead.)\n\nProtons and neutrons are almost always described as being composed of three quarks, but there are also gluons running around. Gluons are the particles which control the interaction of quarks within a proton or neutron. They carry the force that binds the three quarks together to form the larger particle.\n\nSo a proton or neutron has three quarks and a cloud of gluons.\n\n(Just as an aside: If one combines a proton and an electron and a neutrino you will get a neutron, but, in the oddness of quantum physics that doesn't mean a neutron is made of these little guys.)\n\nElectrons on the other hand seem to have no consituents, at least down to the level that has been probed with modern instruments.
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A look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation\nshould answer your ?
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cant answer secifically, but you should be able to back calculte taking elements present today and using the half lives as your main variable.
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analize an existing polymer with as many properties of the ones you are looking for, determine the formula ( possibly use a mass spectrometer for the recipe,)  experiment with the atomic structure of the elements in the formula. wouldn't it be great if you could manipulate the structure at subatomic level, i.e. at levels below protons and neutrons like quarks.\ntry changing the formula ( recipe?) at its basic level, with different proportions of at least carbon and hydrogen, possibly adding 'alloying' elements into the atomic structure.
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In biology?  Wow!  I would expect this in another category.  Atoms are the smallest particle into which an element can be divided.\n\nfor more information, see the site listed below:
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The volume of an atom is actually determined by the electrons.  An atom is composed of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in a cloud around the nucleus.  The nucleus does contribute nearly 100% of the mass of an atom but very little volume.  Electrons weigh basically nothing but are so far away from the nucleus that the volume of the nucleus is negligible.  To relate to something you may understand...if an atom's nucleus was placed at the fifty yard line in a football stadium the electron cloud would be up at the highest levels of the seating.
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Obviously, an atom isn't the smallest particle since they are composed of sub-atomic particles.  An atom however is the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.  Once you go beyond an atom of any element, the components no longer keep the properties of that element.
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Energy can take the form of heat, light, vibration, momentum or sound. It can also be stored as potential energy. Anytime you interconvert among these forms of energy, you can say it is "transferred". Chemical reactions can include some or all of these, with chemical bonds representing stored potential energy.\n\nIn nuclear reactions, you can say that energy and matter are interconverted as well.
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Take radium and subtract two from its atomic number. Then find the element with that result as its atomic number. I'm too lazy to see what that is right now.
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Gain one/two electron(s):\n\nIf an atom or ion acquires another electron in a chemical reaction, it has gained an electron.  ditto for two electrons.\nExample: S has 16 electrons.  If it gains one electron it becomes a S- ion.  If it gains two electrons, it becomes a S-2 ion.\n\nSteal one/two electrons:\nIf an atom or ion looses an electron in a chemical reaction, it had to go somewhere.  That "somewhere" will be to another atom/ion.  So, the receiving atom/ion could be said to have stolen the electron.  Same goes for reactions involving two electrons.\nExample: Na reacts with Cl to produce NaCl.  Cl "steals" an electron from Na, creating Na+ and a Cl- ions.\n\n"Never ever react electron"\nI have never ever heard this phrase.  Maybe it refers to a species (atom or ion) that does not participate in the reaction.  It's valence electron(s) would not react.
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From fusion of hydrogen atoms.
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if u bombard the nucleus of one element with protons or neutrons the elements can change so they are basically interchangeable while cells are at much more complex level of differentiation