Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by ........................... on Friday, July 29, 2011 at 8:56am.

We know that all matter are made up of atoms and all atoms consists of electrons,protons,neutrons,etc.Then why do we find such a variety of matter?Why is wood not gold?

chemistry - Dr Russ, Friday, July 29, 2011 at 9:56am
We find a variety of matter because electrons, protons, and neutrons (not sure what the etc are in this context??) can be arranged in a wide variety of stable and unstable combinations.

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