Which of the forty-eight contiguous states has the largest land area?

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km). In fact, it covers more than twice as much land as the next largest state, Texas.

Explanation:

All of the U.S states are contiguous except for two: Alaska and Hawaii. The others are sometimes also referred to as the "lower 48" states or "conterminous" United States.

the contiguous continental states area of the United States of America, comprising 48 states in number, and the District of Columbia, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.

heat released by collision processes during accretion, and heat from decay of radioactive elements

explanation:

because the two particles have an equal charge, the charges will cancel out and give the atom an overall charge of 0. so, if at atom has 35 protons in the nucleus, we could expect it to have 35 electrons orbiting that nucleus.