Awesome Atoms

Hello everyone I am Ion Turtle and today I am talking about a very small topic. Atoms! Atoms are tiny. Extremely tiny and they make up everything. Literally everything! They make up your shoes, your book, a bicycle, computers, and even you. Yes you are made of atoms. They are so small that it would take 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms to make you. That’s a lot.

The name atom came from a Greek man named Democritus. He thought that eventually you would get to the point where you can’t split it anymore. He called it atoms after the Greek word atomos that means indivisible. Later another guy named John Dalton changed the definition of an atom to the smallest thing that still contains its chemical properties. That means that if you take a carbon atom and split it then it is no longer like carbon in any way.

John Dalton

            Atoms are made of even smaller things. They have an inner part called the nucleus that is made of two different parts. It has protons and neutrons. Protons are positively charged and neutrons have no charge. There are particles that circle around the nucleus called electrons. They are negatively charged and balance out the positive charge of the protons. They also move near the speed of light. That’s really fast. Electrons stay in shells. Each shell has a maximum capacity of electrons. The first one can only have 2 electrons. The second has a maximum of 8. Atoms are made mostly out of empty space. So that means space is made of space.



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