Charlotte Smith

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[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

@HenryTrem3139 Let’s say the “cat” is an electron. The electron is orbiting in between two atoms (one atom is the “death” atom and the other is “life.) The electron’s only next to one at a time, but we have to understand how it acts with both and what the orbit looks like.#msmithchem

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

In the Schrondinger’s cat paradox, the life of a cat in a box with a radioactive isotope depends on whether or not an atom has decayed. We have no way of knowing if the atom has decayed or not without opening the box, so the cat is at once alive and dead. #msmithchem

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

@MayaRutherfor13 That was really interesting to me too. I wonder how scientists were able to calculate the half life when it was such a long time.

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

It was really interesting to find out how elements split into others through radioactivity. Is that how we know elements like Ununbium exist even though we’ve never physically found them? #msmithchem

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

I think isotopes of an element that do not have a staple amount of neutrons are radioactive because too many protons without enough neutrons would just destroy themselves, leading to radioactive decay. #msmithchem

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

@Zoe16039543 I hadn’t thought of that but that makes a lot of sense!

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

I wonder how neutrons are removed or added from the nucleus. #msmithchem

[Charlotte Smith @cacharlottes]

I’ve heard the word isotope used in relation in chemistry but the video helped me realize what it really meant. #msmithchem