Superatom
Atom cluster that exhibits properties of elemental atoms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In chemistry, a superatom is any cluster of atoms that seem to exhibit some of the properties of elemental atoms.[1]
Sodium atoms, when cooled from vapor, naturally condense into clusters, preferentially containing a magic number of atoms (2, 8, 20, 40, 58, etc.), with the outermost electron of each atom entering an orbital encompassing all the atoms in the cluster. Superatoms tend to behave chemically in a way that will allow them to have a closed shell of electrons, in this new counting scheme.[citation needed]