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michelle.tamm
#1 Posted : Sunday, July 16, 2017 9:51:30 PM
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On Examkrackers chemistry page 9, it says " in perfect shielding, each electron added to an atom would be completely shielded from the attractive force of all protons except for the last proton added..."

This confuses me because I thought protons could not be added to an atom?
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#2 Posted : Sunday, July 23, 2017 4:28:09 PM
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Good Morning,

There are ways in which protons can be added or removed from atoms (radioactive decay, nuclear fission/fusion rx etc.). These would be the situations in which this statement would apply
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