Thus, almost a hundred years after Dalton conclusively argued for the existence of the indivisible atom, and at the same time as Einstein was providing a way to directly measure those atoms, Thomson and Rutherford discovered that the atom wasn't indivisible at all. Instead, it was made of ev...
EL1.1 How much do we know about atoms?
How To Know If Atoms Exist? If we cannot see atoms, then how’d we know it actually exists? Science is known to offer pieces of evidence for each of its concepts. Hence, the evidence to prove atoms really exist is offered in a variety of forms. Scientists have actively split big ato...
Why are atoms neutral despite having charged subatomic particles? What subatomic particles are found in the nucleus? What does a subatomic particle look like? Where do the negative subatomic particles exist? What subatomic particles did John Dalton know about? Are electrons subatomic particles? How ...
If atoms exist, why can't we see them with visible light? When electrons travel, do they produce and/or carry electricity? How does a van de graaff work? What happens to the settling velocity if the density of the particles increases?
How can scientists search for strange matter if no one's ever seen it? Well, they actually do know what bits of strange matter would look like on Earth if it weren't dangerous. It would resemble our regular atoms -- a positively charged core made of quarks, with electrons around -- on...
together, generating nuclei with extra protons and neutrons. However, these ultra-heavy elements are highly unstable and difficult to make. “We really do not know what is the heaviest element that could exist,”Witold Nazarewicz,a nuclear physicist at Michigan State University, told Smithsonian ...
If dark matter particles exist, they should pass through solid earth and strike the nuclei of the germanium atoms, which will recoil and produce tiny amounts of heat and energy. In 2010, the team reported that it had detected two candidate WIMPs striking the array of cells. Ultimately, the...
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activity, the pupils built molecular models with ball and stick models (seeFigure 6). The pupils were divided into pairs or small groups and had access to a whole box with balls of different colors (symbolizing atoms) and sticks of different lengths (symbolizing the bonds between the atoms)...