Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Defining "Atom"


Answer the following question in your comment below:
An atom is the smallest particle into which an element can be divided and still be that element. Now that scientists have learned that an atom is made up of even smaller particles (like protons, neutrons, and electrons), is this definition still accurate? Why or why not?

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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM

    i would still be accurate, because when you break up the atom into subatomic particles they lose the characteristics of the element.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    Yes because you can't spilt protons, neutrons, and electrons into something smaller.

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  3. andrewSeptember 20, 2012 at 10:50 AM

    well i do not exactly get this but if an atom is the smallest thing in the world how coud it be mad up of other atoms

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  4. Andy WSeptember 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM

    No because you can divide an atom into protons, neutrons, and electrons.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM

    No, because if you take away 1 proton from it, it would become a whole new element. Same going with neutrons and electrons, taking away 1 or 2 or however many will change the element. So I believe what they had said before is wrong.

    -Diante Dowdell

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM

    Yes, the definition is still accurate because the particles are still apart of the atom. An atom is the smallest particle into which an element can be divided and still be that element.

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 10:46 AM

    That is still true, because it will still be an atom it is just made up of different parts like protons neutrons and electrons.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM

    Yes, because the protons and neutrons are inside the nucleus and if you divide those up it will mess up the element. The atom, I believe is the smallest thing an element can be divided and stay the same element.

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  9. justin pSeptember 21, 2012 at 1:13 PM

    yes because protons by them selves can not still be that element

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    I think it is not accutate. Just because the definition sayes that it is the smallest particle but there is acually smaller particles in the atom.

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  11. luke dreyerSeptember 25, 2012 at 2:47 PM

    yes. if you split and atom it a nucleaur bomb so if you tried to look at the protons,neutrons,and electrons you would be killed in a explosion

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  12. Hanah W.September 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM

    yes because if you broke it up it wouldn't be that element anymore

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  13. Robin HatcherSeptember 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    no, because once it is broken down it can't be the element anymore because it is already broken down! (:

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