Try to
imagine that you are
an
electron in
an oxygen atom.
Then you would be one of
eight, of exactly
the same kind as yourself that
spin
around the nucleus.
What would you have to do to make
the atom you are part of,
be oxygen?
-
You
would have to cooperate with
the other electrons
and with the
particles in the nucleus
(which in oxygen
consists of 16
particles, 8
neutrons and
8 protons)
to spin
in
your particular
place
in the atom.
Perhaps you were
one of the
particles in
the outer shell?
Which abilities/qualities must you have to be able to do
the job as electron in an oxygen atom?