Question: What would happen to different elements when in the vacuum of space? Would they react in different ways or would nothing happen and it just be anti-climatic?
Some reactions happen is space because of all of the radiation that’s up there. Some really high energy waves cause reactions to happen in space. Being in a vacuum just means two molecules may never meet to react
This is a really cool question. To add to the answers from the others:
There is a type of chemistry research called astrochemistry where scientists reach this type of thing. Some have a chamber with a vacumn and inset small amounts of chemicals/elements to see how they react. This will help us understand better how stuff reacts in space.
A lot of interesting reactions are occurring in the interstellar space. It is the name given to the space “between the stars” and this is made up of clouds of gases and dust particles that can make reactions.
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