element

(noun)

Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.

Related Terms

  • periodic table
  • atomic number

Examples of element in the following topics:

  • The Periodic Table

    • Elements are presented according to their atomic numbers (number of protons) in increasing order.
    • The standard form of the table comprises an eighteen by seven grid or main body of elements, positioned above a smaller double row of elements.
    • Each chemical element has a unique atomic number representing the number of protons in its nucleus.
    • They are always grouped together under a single element.
    • The production of elements beyond ununoctium is being pursued.
  • The Periodic Table of Elements

    • The periodic table is a tabular display of the chemical elements.
    • In the periodic table, elements are presented in order of increasing atomic number (the number of protons).
    • Using the trends he observed, he even left gaps for those elements that he thought were "missing. " He even predicted the properties that he thought the missing elements would have when they were discovered.
    • Each entry on the periodic table represents one element, and compounds are made up of several of these elements.
    • Explain how properties of elements vary within groups and across periods in the periodic table
  • A Geometrical Picture

    • Therefore all the elements in the null space are orthogonal to all the elements in the row space.
  • Nuclear Stability

    • Filled shells, such as the filled shell of 50 protons in the element tin, confers unusual stability on the nuclide.
    • All elements form a number of radionuclides, although the half-lives of many are so short that they are not observed in nature.
    • Even the lightest element, hydrogen, has a well-known radioisotope: tritium.
    • The heaviest elements (heavier than bismuth) exist only as radionuclides.
    • For every chemical element, many radioisotopes that do not occur in nature (due to short half-lives or the lack of a natural production source) have been produced artificially.
  • Different Types of Currents

    • An electrical circuit is an interconnection of electrical elements that has a closed loop giving a return path for the current.
    • Electrical networks that consist only of sources (voltage or current), linear lumped elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors), and linear distributed elements (transmission lines) can be analyzed by algebraic and transform methods.
    • The two Kirchoff laws along with the current-voltage characteristic (I-V curve) of each electrical element completely describe a circuit.
    • A set of example circuit elements and their associated symbols commonly used in circuit diagrams.
    • Describe structure of an electrical circuit and identify elements of a direct current circuit
  • Combinations of Lenses

    • In contrast to a simple lens, which consists of only one optical element, a compound lens is an array of simple lenses (elements) with a common axis.
    • The most common type of achromat is the achromatic doublet, which is composed of two individual lenses made from glasses with different amounts of dispersion Typically, one element is a negative (concave) element made out of flint, which has relatively high dispersion, and the other is a positive (convex) element made of crown glass, which has lower dispersion.
    • The lens elements are mounted next to each other, often cemented together, and shaped so that the chromatic aberration of one is counterbalanced by that of the other.
    • In the most common type (shown in ), the positive power of the crown lens element is not quite equaled by the negative power of the flint lens element.
    • Negative doublets, in which the negative-power element predominates, are also made.
  • Atomic Theory of Matter

    • Dalton proposed that each chemical element is composed of atoms of a single, unique type, and though they cannot be altered or destroyed by chemical means, they can combine to form more complex structures (chemical compounds).
    • Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and other properties; atoms of different elements differ in size, mass, and other properties.
    • Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios to form chemical compounds.
    • Atoms can be broken down into smaller pieces, and atoms of a given element can vary in mass and other properties (see isotopes and ions).
  • Bibliography

  • Introduction to Elementary operations and Gaussian Elimination

    • ., making zero all the elements below the main diagonal (and normalizing the diagonal elements to 1).
  • Mass

    • All elements have physical properties whose values can help describe an elements physical state.
    • Changes to these properties can describe elemental transformations.
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