Maintain your bonsai tree trunk and branches with these easy to use tools each designed to help you make the perfect cut with minimal harm to your tree. We recommend the concave branch cutter due to its wide range of uses.

Steel atomicnumber

Transition metals, which occupy the d-block of the periodic table (Groups 3-12), are characterised by their unique electronic configurations, physical properties, and chemical behaviours. Their structure and properties are influenced by several key factors, including core charge, metallic bonding, delocalised electrons, melting points, and density.

Positively charged metal ions arise when valence electrons dissociate from their parent atoms, leaving behind positive ions. The detached electrons, now 'free' are termed 'delocalised' as they no longer belong to any specific atom's valence shell. Instead, they can move through the lattice and are shared among a multitude of positive ions.

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Stainlesssteel atomic structure

Metals are predominantly solid under standard conditions (room temperature and 1 atmospheric pressure). Many metals are hard substances, although certain members of Groups 1 and 2, such as alkali and alkali earth metals including sodium and calcium, show softer properties, making them easily cut with a knife.

Ironatomic structure

Metals can adopt different types of lattice structures, such as body-centred cubic (BCC), face-centred cubic (FCC), and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) arrangements. These structures are determined by the way the metal atoms pack together in the most efficient way to minimise empty space.

The properties of metals can be accounted by their structure: a meticulously arranged three-dimensional lattice of positive metal ions interlaced with a mobile 'sea' of delocalised electrons.

While it is useful to be aware of the different types of metallic lattice, knowing which metals occupy each type of lattice and how they affect the metal's property is not required in the HSC Chemistry syllabus