Right then. Atoms with one unpaired electron that sound like freethinking social anarchists.

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  1. Gue

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    I'll start - Free radicals.</p>





























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  2. Var

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    Is that

    un-re-paired (were paired but not re-paired yet)

    or un-repaired (need fixing)?
     
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  4. Gue

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    unrepaired?

    A "free radical" is any atom or molecule which has an "unpaired electron" in the outer ring. An "unpaired electron" will also always mean that there is an odd number since "pairing" of electrons goes by 2s.
     
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  5. Gue

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    however if we are talking molecules

    we can have covalent bonding which surely means that they can be paired but still be an odd number of electrons in the outer shell because of the sharing of electrons rather than the transfer of ionic bonding.
     
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  6. Gue

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    oops, typo edited.
     
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    Un-re-paired could be correct though
     
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    As the board scientist I'm keeping out of this
     
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  9. Gue

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    and

    your point being?
     
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