show more If you were asked to describe metals and magnetism you could say. nonâpaired electrons spin in opposite directions in all metals, creating a magnetic field. metals are magnets because they have more electrons than nonâmagnetic materials. metals can become magnetic if they have many spinning electrons... show more If you were asked to describe metals and magnetism you could say. nonâpaired electrons spin in opposite directions in all metals, creating a magnetic field.
Not to be confused with Argonne (disambiguation). Argon is a chemical element with symbol Ar and atomic number 18. It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas. Argon is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934% (9340 ppmv).
In a neutral atom, the number of electrons is the same as the number of protons. The atomic number of aluminum is 13. A neutral atom of aluminum has 13 protons and 13 electrons. The ground state electron configuration for aluminum is #1s^22s^22p^63s^23p^1#. A shorthand way to write the electron configuration, called noble gas notation, is #[Ne]3^23p^1#.