THE ATOM

Imagine that you had a pure gold ring. Divide it into half again and again and again until you reach a small piece which can be only seen in a microscope. Still divide in half until you reach the smallest piece of gold possible, this is an atom. If you divide the atom, it will no longer be gold.

You can fit a million of these atom on the tip of a needle!,they are very small and are too small to see by the human eye. The only way to see them is to is to look through a special microscope more advanced than the normal microscopes called the electron microscope(until someone has a better way to see them).

Everything in the world is made out of atoms, so far scientists have found only 115 different kind of atom  . These different types of atom which are each unique(has its own weight,size etc.) are called elements.

Parts of an atom 

So what is an a atom. Well, in the center of the atom is the nucleus.  It is made out protons and neutrons.Around the nucleus are electrons. they surround the nucleus.The 115 kinds of atoms are different from each other because they have different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons....

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So this the very basics of a part in Physics called Quantum Mechanics(or quantum physics).

If you want to know more about the atom like the periodic table, orbitals, quarks, elements, mixtures and more of the world around and interesting facts  about the world around you, then read my articles(they may come each week or fortnight but it depends). And if you want to know more about the protons, neutrons and electrons and more. Please read the next article about it.  

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                                                                                      By Shreyas Kannan