Bikers
This clip shows an unusual way of demonstrating rings on an atom. After watching the clip you should be able to visualise how electrons orbit the nucleus and finish with Neon as a full shell.
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Narrator
Unlike Cambridge Don Peter, Laura has some experience of working with young teenagers. She's hoping a radical demonstration of atomic structure will grab their attention.
Laura
I want to just give them a bit of freedom to have some fun with science and to explore it for themselves.
Protons and neutrons, these are your electrons.
Narrator
Laura's drafted in a bunch of bikers to demonstrate that every element is made up of a different number of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Laura
So there's one proton, that's a hydrogen atom.
Narrator
This knowledge is crucial to get the class through this weeks Big Experiment.
Laura
We've got two protons and two neutrons, this is helium. Lithium. Right one more red please, ok. That's beryllium. Boron. So I want six protons and six neutrons. That's carbon. Nitrogen. Oxygen. We're making fluorine. So we've got ten protons and ten neutrons, neon.