What makes a radical?
You might have friends who are radicals, but there's another kind of radical that's related to the field of chemistry. It's a group of two or more charged or neutral atoms--the small particles that make up everything from the air you breathe to the desk you sit at--that have at least one unpaired electron. (Electrons are parts of atoms which carry a postive charge and spin around the atom's center just as the rings of Saturn spin around the planet.) These radicals are extremely reactive and like to join up with other atoms or radicals to form new substances.
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Source: Discovery School
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