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What Is Fundamental? : The Atom Today we know that there is something more fundamental than earth, water, air, and fire...
By convention there is color, Around 1900, people thought of atoms as permeable balls with bits of electric charge bouncing around inside. But is the atom fundamental?
People soon realized that they could could categorize atoms into groups that shared
similiar chemical properties
Moreover, experiments which "looked" into an atom using particle probes indicated that atoms had structure and were not just squishy balls. These experiments helped scientists determine that atoms have a tiny but dense, positive nucleus and a cloud of negative electrons (e-). Trivia: The term "atom" is a misnomer. Why? [Answer] |