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Jan 20, 2019 at 1:23 comment added Harper - Reinstate Monica @user2966384 I think you need to bone up on the basic physics of molecules and atoms a bit. Your question suggests confusion on this point, and it feels like an answer would need to lay out a bunch of science basics you can get anywhere. That's not what answers should do.
Jan 19, 2019 at 23:53 comment added SJuan76 Nuclear reactions means that the changes happen in the nucleus of the atom. This is what defines the element to which the atom belongs (more concisely, the number of protons -the atomic number-). Atoms can lose or win electrons yet, if the nucleus does not change, they remain of the same element, the only difference is that they end electrically charged and they are called ions. All that is chemistry (including molecules) is governed by the external layers of electrons, not by the nucleus. You do need an Atomic Distillery.
Jan 19, 2019 at 23:32 comment added worldbuilder So your suggestion is that I need an Atomic Distillery? Is there some way however to get some atoms in the molecules to lose/gain electrons by interacting with other atoms in the molecules to transmute the elements so that it can be done in a Molecular Distillery?
S Jan 19, 2019 at 10:14 history suggested user6608 CC BY-SA 4.0
According to IUPAC, chemical element names are not proper nouns in English
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S Jan 19, 2019 at 10:14
Jan 18, 2019 at 22:43 history answered SJuan76 CC BY-SA 4.0