why aluminum is a metal and carbon is not?
Because that government was too cheap to house and feed themGreed and control are in power there.
Because he couldAbsolute power corrupts absolutely.
They tell me that islam is a religion of peaceUh huh.
He was eliminating all opposition, even executing the moderate interim President BakhtiarThere is a very good film on the unrest before the mullahs had absolute power titled The Hidden Half The subtitles are a bit hard to read at times but it gives you a good idea of what was happening in Iran after the Shah left and various groups were trying to fill the power void.
You see that aluminum is left of carbonAnd one period downYou can also see that metallic propertied elements end sort of in a diagonal shape on the right side of the periodic tableSo aluminum is a metalIt has to do about ionization energiesAs you go down in a table more shells are added which increase the distance between nucleus and valence electrons which decreases ionization energyAs you go right though the ionization energy increasesSo non metals have high ionization energy, as you go down though in a period the ionization energy decreasesAnd thats why there is a diagonal shape of the metals ending and becoming metalloids so we can say that metallic properties increase as you go down in the periodic tableAnd decrease as you go right
