PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Historic Dispute : Are Atoms Real?
Viewpoint: Yes, atoms are real, and science has developed to the point that atoms can not only be seen, but can also be individually manipulated.
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Atom
Atoms and the subatomic particles that comprise them, are the elementary building blocks of material substances. Although the term atom, derived from the Greek word atomos, meaning indivisible, w...
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Atoms
Atoms are the smallest particles of matter that have distinct physical and chemical properties. Each different type of atom makes up an element which is characterized by an atomic weight and an ...
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Atom
Atoms are the elementary building blocks of material substances. Although the term atom, derived from the Greek word atomos, meaning indivisible, would seem inappropriate for an entity that, as s...
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Balancing Equations
All matter, for practical purposes, is composed of atoms. They are discrete entities and indivisible under normal circumstances. This has a profound effect on all of chemistry in t...
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Atomic Data Types
In ancient philosophy, and until relatively recently, an atom was considered to be the ultimate unit of matter, and the building block of which more complex conceptual and physical c...
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Atom
Atoms are the elementary building blocks of material substances. Although the term atom, derived from the Greek word atomos, meaning indivisible, would seem inappropriate for an entity that, as s...
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Atomic Structure
Atomic theory, first put in a quantitative conceptual framework by John Dalton, and quantum theory, which emerged in the 1920s as a result of the work of Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schr...
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Democritus- a Greek thinker who called nature's basic particles atoms. (indivisible)
Aristotle- didn't believe in atoms, thought all matter was continuous.
Chemical reaction- transformation of subst...
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