what are the naturally occurring diatomic molecules
If the diatomic molecule consists of atoms from two different elements, then it is a heteronuclear diatomic molecule. There are seven elements that naturally occur as homonuclear diatomic molecules in their gaseous states: hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine.Bromine and iodine need slightly higher temperatures than room temperature to occur as gaseous diatomic molecules.he subscript 2 of oxygen and nitrogen indicates the number of oxygen atoms and nitrogen atoms. So the oxygen molecules present in the atmosphere have two oxygen atoms and the nitrogen molecules have two nitrogen atoms. There are also other diatomic molecules that we encounter every day.