An engineer is designing a new steel skyscraper that will be built in an area that receives frequent earthquakes. He needs to choose one technique to use to reduce the damage the building will receive in an earthquake. Compare two different techniques that he could use to reduce earthquake damage. Recommend one of the techniques; give reasons why you chose that technique instead of the other one.

The characteristics of two different types of reactions are shown below: reaction a: electrons are gained by the atoms of an element. reaction b: protons are lost by the atom of an element. which statement is true about the atoms of the elements that participate in the two reactions? their identity changes in both reaction a and reaction b. their identity changes in reaction a but not in reaction b. their identity changes in reaction b but not in reaction a. their identity remains the same in both reaction a and reaction b.