3 particles of an atom

Hi There are 3 main particles of an atom. They are electrons, protons and neutrons.

Introduction to 3 particles of an atom

Protons
Protons are the most elementary particles of an atom.
They are situated in the nucleus.
They carry single positive charge.
In fact, charge carried by a proton has been labeled as single charge.
How do all the protons, which are similarly charged stay composed in the nucleus?
It is because of energy called binding energy.
The number at the base of an atom represent the atomic number.
e.g.In case of carbon ₆C, the atomic number is 6, which means number of protons is 6.

Neutrons

They are nuclear particles with mass nearby that of protons but no charge.
Since they are part of mass number along with the protons, the number of neutrons is equal to,
Mass number - Number of protons.
e.g: The mass number of Krypton is 84 and the number of protons is 36.
So the number of neutrons =  84 - 36 = 48
Mass number is written at the top of the symbol of the element.

Electrons

Electrons are negatively charged subatomic particles.

The charge is −1.602×10⁻¹⁹ Coulomb.
Their mass is 1/1836 ^th of that of proton and is many a times neglected in related calculations.
Electrons are rotating outside the nucleus of an atom. They are arranged in sub-shells in different energy levels.

The energy levels are named as K, L, M, N etc.., and the sub-shells as s, p, d, f etc.., Electrons posses a spin of +1/2 or -1/2.

Electrons are elementary particles and are not composed of quarks. They were discovered by J.J.Thompson in 1897.

Electricity is actually flow of electrons.
Chemical bonds are formed either by donating, accepting or sharing of electrons.
As the number of electrons is same as that of protons, the atom attains stability as the opposite charges attract one another.
Thus the number of electrons can be found from the number of protons.

Iron atom

Introduction 

Iron atom is a chemical element having atomic number 26 and with the symbol ‘Fe’ which in Latin means ferrum.  It is a metal in the first transition series.  Like other ‘group 8’ elements, it exists in several oxidation states. The oxidation states of iron is +2 and +3, it might also occur in higher oxidation states of about +6.  Iron (II) compounds are called ferric and iron(III) compounds are called ferrous.   Iron and its alloys are the widely used ferromagnetic materials in the modern day life.

Pure iron is softer than aluminum.  Steel can be prepared by alloying pure iron with small amounts of other metals and carbon. The alloy steel is almost 1,000 times harder than pure iron.  It is the most common element found on earth.  It reacts with air to form iron oxides also known as rust. The rusting of iron and its alloys is undesirable, and has a major economic impact. The melting point of iron is about 1535 °C. Its mechanical properties can be varied extensively by varying the carbon content in the alloy.

      Different types of Iron are

1.   Pig iron has 3.5–4.5% carbon
2.   Cast iron contains 2–4% carbon 
3.   Wrought iron has less than 0.008% carbon

Occurrence and Biological Importance of Iron atom

Occurrence of Iron atom: Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Universe, formed from the process known as nucleosynthesis, by the fusion of silicon in huge stars. Metallic iron is rarely found on the surface of the earth because it tends to oxidize, but its oxides are diffused and represents the primary ores. About 5% of the earths curst constitutes of Iron.  Most of the Inner and outer core of earth consists of Iron-Nickel alloy which is about 35% of the total mass of the earth.  Hematite and Magnetite are the most common form of iron ore which is found in earth crust. These ores are combined with oxygen to form iron oxides. 

Biological importance of Iron atom: Iron plays a major role in biology.  Ranging from the primitive archaea to humans, all living organism has iron-proteins.  Hemoglobin is a protein containing iron.  Hemoglobin is responsible for the color of the blood.  Hemoglobin and myoglobin are the two compounds which helps in the transportation of oxygen proteins in vertebrates.  Iron is present in each and every cell of the human body. It is the basic necessity for the growth and development of a living organism.

Applications of Iron

Alkaline earth metals chemical

Introduction :
Alkaline earth metals are beryllium, magnesium, strontium, calcium, barium, and radium. These are the chemical elements that occupy the second column in the periodic table. In olden days when substances were insoluble in water and unchanged by fire they were referred to as earths. Thus the name uses of alkaline Earth metals.

Alkaline earth metals:

The alkaline-earth elements have a grey-white lustre when freshly cut. This lustre is tarnished readily when exposed to air. These metals are good conductors of electricity and highly metallic and. Beryllium is hard enough to scratch glass.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/53345/bariumBarium is the least hard of them all. The elements in this group have higher melting points and boiling points than those of the corresponding alkali metals;  and beryllium has the highest boiling and melting points(MP 1,283° and bop about 2,500°) and magnesium has the lowest boiling and melting point in this group (MP 650° C and bp 1,105° C)

Occurrence in Nature

• Magnesium and calcium are essential to all living organisms and found in abundance in several compounds.While calcium is needed for bone and teeth formation, magnesium is needed for the intercellular processes and enzyme formation in the body.
• Beryllium is least soluble and is very rarely found in nature. It is a toxic metal.

• Strontium and barium are less available. Strontium is found in marine aquatic life, like hard corals. Barium is used in some imaging studies.

• Radium is highly radioactive metal and has a low availability. Exposure to radium can be dangerous to life.

Alkaline earth metal compounds:

 The alkaline earth metals react with other elements to form compounds that are used in several applications. For example
Alkyl magnesium halides are used to synthetize organic compounds. Calcium carbonate is used for making limestone, marble, and chalkin the construction industry.Magnesium oxide (MgO) is used in wire insulation and as a material to refract furnace brick.

Conclusion on alkaline earth metals:

The alkaline earth metals are a useful group of metals. There are differences in physical properties among these metals. A detailed study of these metals gives new insights into the behaviour of these metals and the chemical differences between them.

Alkanes physical and chemical properties

Introduction :   
Hydrogen atoms in a hydrocarbon aliphatic are perfumed by halogen atoms' consequences in the configuration of alkyl halide and aryl halide correspondingly. Haloalkanes have halogen atoms attached to the SP³ hybridised carbon atoms of an aryl group. Several halogens have organic composite which occur in nature and several of these are clinically useful. These classes of compounds locate wide applications in industry as well as in day-to day life.

Physical properties:

Physical properties:
Alkyl halides will be colourless while pure. Though bromides and iodides expand colour when exposed to light,several volatile halogen compounds contain sweet smell.

Melting and boiling points in physical properties:
Methyl chloride, methyl bromide, ethyl chloride also several chlorofluoromethanes are gas by room temperature. Higher members are liquids or solid. Since, we learnt that the contain, molecules of organic halogen mix are usually polar, suitable to greater polarity as well as higher molecular mass like evaluating to the parent hydrocarbon, the inter molecular forces of attraction are stronger in their halogen derived. The attractions get stronger as the molecules get bigger in size containing  more electrons.

Density in physical properties:
Bromo, iodo and polychloro derived of hydrocarbons are heavier than water. Physical properties of density increases among increase in number of carbon atoms. Halogen atoms with atomic mass of the halogen atoms.

Chemical properties:
Chemical Reactions of alkanes:
The chemical reactions of alkanes may be divided into the following categories:

• Nucleophilic substitution
• Elimination reactions
• Reaction with metals

Nucleophilic substitution in chemical reactions:
A nucleophile reacts with alkane having a partial positive charge on the carbon atom bonded to halogen. A substitution reaction obtain position with halogen atom known leaving group departs as halide ion.

Elimination reactions in chemical reactions:
When an alkane with B-hydrogen atom is heated among alcohilic solution of potassium hydroxide, here is removal of hydrogen atom from B-carbon and a halogen atom from the a-carbon atom.
Alkane is produced the product B-hydrogen atom is occupied in elimination, it is often known B-elimination.

Relation with metals in chemical reactions:
Mainly organic chlorides, bromides and iodides react with definite metals to provide compounds containing carbon-metal bonds. Such compounds are known as organo-metalli compounds.

Radio wave propagation

Introduction :
A radio wave is an electromagnetic wave whose frequency is lower than 3000 GHz, a wavelength greater than 0.1 mm.

The field of radio is regulated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established rules of radio communications in which one can read the following definition:

Radio waves or radio waves "electromagnetic waves with frequencies arbitrarily lower than 3000 GHz propagated in space without artificial guide" can be between 9 kHz and 3000 GHz which corresponds to wavelengths 33 km to 0.1 mm.

The wave frequency below 9 kHz radio waves are, however are not regulated.

The radio waves  are electromagnetic waves which propagate in two ways:
  * In the free space propagation (radiated around the Earth for example)
  * In lines (guided propagation in a coaxial cable or waveguide)

The field frequency radio waves ranges from 9 kHz to 3000 GHz.

Radio or electromagnetic wave in space :

The waves caused by a falling rock on the surface of a pond spread like concentric circles. The radio waves emitted by the isotropic antenna (that is to say, radiating uniformly in all directions in space) can be represented by a series of concentric spheres. One can imagine a balloon inflating fast, the speed of light c, very close to 300,000 km / s. After one second, the sphere has 600,000 km in diameter. If the propagation medium is not isotropic and homogeneous, the wave front will not be a sphere. As the radio wave is a vibration, after a period, the wave has traveled a distance denoted lambda and called wavelength. The wavelength is a key feature in the study of the spread, for a given frequency, it depends on the speed of wave propagation.

Radio Wave propagation in a line:

A generator connected to a load with a line will cause each of the two conductors of the line to establish an electric current and the formation of a wave moving in the dielectric at high speeds. This speed is less than the speed of light but frequently exceeds 200 000 km / s, which implies that for a given frequency, the wavelength in the line is smaller than in space.

In a coaxial line, the propagation speed is the same regardless of frequency, we say that the line is dispersive.

Propagation of electromagnetic waves

Propagation of Waves

 The process of communication involves the transmission of information from one location to another.  As we have seen, modulation is used to encode the information onto a carrier wave, and may involve analog or digital methods. It is only the characteristics of the carrier wave which determine how the signal will propagate over any significant distance.  This chapter describes the different ways that electromagnetic waves propagate.

Basics

An electromagnetic wave is created by a local disturbance in the electric and magnetic fields.  From its origin, the wave will propagate outwards in all directions.

If the medium in which it is propagating (air for example) is the same everywhere, the wave will spread out uniformly in all directions.

Far from its origin, it will have spread out enough that it will appear have the same amplitude everywhere on the plane perpendicular to its direction of travel (in the near vicinity of the observer). This type of wave is called a plane wave. A plane wave is an idealization that allows one to think of the entire wave traveling in a single direction, instead of spreading out in all directions.

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation at the speed of light in a vacuum. In other mediums, like air or glass, the speed of propagation is slower. If the speed of light in a vacuum is given the symbol c0, and the speed in some a medium is c, we can define the index of refraction, n as: 
Refraction

When the wave enters the new medium, the speed of propagation will change. In order to match the incident and transmitted wave at the boundary, the transmitted wave will change its direction of propagation.  For example, if the new medium has a higher index of refraction, which means the speed of propagation is lower, the wavelength will become shorter (frequency must stay the same because of the boundary conditions).  For the transmitted wave to match the incident wave at the boundary, the direction of propagation of the transmitted wave must be closer to perpendicular.

The relationship between the angles and indices of refraction is given by Snell's Law:
ni sinI = nt sint

Alkane nomenclature practice

Introduction :
Alkanes are the saturated hydrocarbons consisting elements of carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) in which atoms are linked together by single bonds. Alkanes are the member of a homologous series of organic compounds, where all members differ by a constant relative molecular mass of 14.

Each carbon atom have 4 single bonds (either C-H or C-C bonds), and each hydrogen atoms are joined to a carbon atom. A series of linked carbon atoms is known as the carbon skeleton or carbon backbone...The first member of alkane is methane, CH₄.

Structure and Isomerism of Alkanes:

Saturated hydrocarbons, Alkanes, may occur in linear, branched or cyclic forms. Alkanes having linear structure must have n<3.In this all the carbon  are attached  in a snake-like structure and alkanes having branched structure must have n>3. Alkanes having cyclic structure must have n>2.Alkanes having more than three carbon atoms are arranged in number of ways, so they form different structural isomers.

• First three members i.e. methane, ethane, and propane have one isomer.  
• Butane ,C₄H₁₀ has 2 isomers. they are n-butane, isobutene
• Pentane ,C₅H₁₂  has 3 isomers. They are pentane, isopentane, neopentane 
• Hexane, C₆H₁₄ has five  isomers
• Branched alkanes are chiral, e.g., 3-methylhexane and its higher homologues

Alkane nomenclature practice

• The number of carbon atoms can be indicated by ‘meth’ for one carbon atom, ‘eth’ for two , ‘prop’ for three, ‘but’ for four , ‘pent’ for five and so on…..

• Alkanes or saturated carbon atoms can be named by adding ‘ane’ suffix to the number of carbon atoms’ name. e.g., CH₄ can be named as methane. C₂H₆ can be named as ethane .First three members of alkanes form linear structure, so they have one isomer each.  

    Butane has two isomers. It can be named by using following rules:

• For naming branched chain isomers, firstly number of carbon atoms in series are counted and named according to it.

• Then number of methyl group is counted and also its position is located.

As per the IUPAC convention, we have certain rules to follow:

• First we have to find and then name the longest chain of carbon.
• Next we have to identify the groups which is being attached to the chain, after that we name it.
• Number the C- atoms in a chain that starts from the nearest substituent group.
• Assign the position of each group by a proper number and then we name it.
• Write the name of the listing groups which should be in an alphabetical order.
• di, tri, tetra, are used as prefix to assign several groups of similar kind. Alphabetizing is not taken into account.

E.g.  
1. C₄H₁₀           `->`     common name – n-butane      IUPAC name- butane 

 

2.

 

IUPAC names of the above alkane is 2- methylpropane

3.

IUPAC name of the above alkane is 2-methylbutane

4.

IUPAC name of the above alkane is 2,2-dimethylpropane

Conclusion for the nomenclature of alkane

From the discussion, we conclude that, in alkane each carbon atom have 4 single bonds and each hydrogen atom must be joined to a carbon atom .There is single bond between each carbon atom. They are saturated hydrocarbons.