I wandered out of the mist the other day and found myself in a library. As science has changed since I was alive, I thought I would go and browse the science section. Ramdomly flicking through some of the books, lovely pictures, I came upon something called a valency electron. It appears that a valency electron is in the outer part, of the shell, of an atom of an element. I did not know atoms had shells? Anyway, some elements always have the same amount of valence electrons. I read that hydrogen has one, ordinary oxygen has two, so does calcium. The electrons are reponsible for creating bonds with other atoms. It also appears that these valency electrons are sometimes shared, I can see that. But other times they are lost when an Ion or compound is formed.
Having been in the mist for some years my mind wanders every now and again, but how can an electron get lost, where does it go. Are there some atoms that go round stealing these electrons or have they just been mislayed? If another atom gets hold of one of these lost valency electrons the surley the atom's structure changes and it become a part, of a part of something else. So for example if a calcium atom was wandering around and it lost one of its two valency electrons, would that atom then change into oxygen?
This has very serious ramifications, somewhere there is a big pile of homeless valency electrons, if these electrons were found and put to use, would everything change, as the atomic stucture will have changed, as it has been added to, and the atoms that make up an object will all be changed so does the complete object change as well? If that is the case Icould get up one morning as a human being and be a table and chairs by the evening. Anyone who can help please comment.