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What is the difference between Sodium atoms and oxygen atoms

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Answered by Anonymous
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What would be formed between sodium atom and oxygen atom?

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I am compelled to give an answer to this only because the existing answer seems so fundamentally wrong on many levels and offends my very basic knowledge of chemistry. I don’t know from practical experience that sodium and oxygen do react, although I do know that sodium is a group 1 highly reactive element, a bit like lithium and francium that does burn in air. Each element burns at a different rate with Francium being actually explosive because the reaction rate is so fast. To be honest I seem to remember a video of sodium that had been stored under oil and then drop on water, burning, i.e. oxidising. That would be sodium, because it is a highly reactive group 1 element reacting probably with both oxygen in air and potentially displacing oxygen from hydrogen in the water it was floating on, oxidising i.e. combining with oxygen which is a group 6 element to form presumably Na20 or sodium oxide. Na20 would be an ionically bonded molecule with 2 sodiums and one oxygen where each sodium loses an electron to form a sodium ion and the oxygen gains 2 electrons, one from each sodium atom to form and oxygen ion. This is basic and established but correct, chemistry. The statement in the previous answer about “only ions react” . Ions are the result of molecular interactions to exchange elements and form lower energy, or, more energetically stable molecules.

Answered by ayushmaan725
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sodium use in many thinks  and oxygen use in breath but oxygen is most important in our life

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