So, this is just one example of how these properties can already, even our understanding just talking about single atoms, can already make an impact in these biological systems.

这只是一个例子，通过它我们可以看到，尽管我们仅仅讲到了单个原子，但我们现在已经可以用它的性质来理解一些生物系统。

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And what we've been talking about with all of these properties are, of course, how can we figure out what that is for a certain atom by looking at the periodic table, so we want to think about the periodic trend for atomic radius.

对于我们讲过的这些性质，我们所讨论的一直都是,当然是，我们如何能够判断某一个原子的这些性质,通过观察周期表，因此我们需要思考一下原子半径的周期性规律。

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That is what makes metal so fascinating, because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.

所以这就使得金属具有了特别的性质，因为金属键使得原子可以,在彼此之间流动,而不会千万灾难性的后果。

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A couple of other things about hydrogen: hydrogen also, like other elements, has isotopes and we already saw that in 1766, Cavendish isolated atomic hydrogen and enunciated some of its properties.

一些关于氢的东西：,氢气，就像其他元素一样，有同位素，人们在1766年就发现了这一点，卡文迪许分离出原子氢,并且阐述了它的一些性质。

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But you need to be able to predict what kind of properties a certain atom's going to have within a molecule, whether you're talking about something, for example, that's very electronegative, or something that is not electronegative at all, it is going to make a difference in terms of thinking about how molecules are structured and also how they interact with other molecules.

但是你需要能够预言，什么性质,某个原子在分子中能够具有，无论你讨论的是哪一种情况，比如，它有很高的电负性，还是它根本没有电负性，都将会产生影响,对这个分子的结构,以及与其它分子相互作用的情况。

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