Mohammed was a participant in the Understanding Science Project.
He was interviewed on 12 occasions: 7 times in Y10, and 5 times in Y11.
An atom is the smallest amount of matter you can get
If you take all of the electrons off an atom, then you would stop having matter
In ionic bonding, they both want to get full outer shells
In sodium chloride the two atoms are very close, but they do not actually touch
In a molecule the electrons actually slot into spaces
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