Elements are made purely of one type of atom. For example, pure sodium is made of 100% Na (sodium atoms).
This is not to be confused with compounds. For example, water (H20) is a compound and not an element because it contains both Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms in its molecular formula.
Pure oxygen is in the form of O2. Even though it is made up of molecules that have 2 atoms (each molecule consists of 2 oxygens attached to each other), oxygen is the only element present, and therefore this is a pure elemental substance.
If you are referring to the Periodic Table of elements, they exist in the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Elements are mostly in the solid metal state. There are metals in liquid form too, like Mercury and bromine. And of course the Noble gases.
Fundamental particles as electrons, positrons, muons, quarks etc. haven't subparticles; particles as neutrons and protons etc. contain quarks and gluons.
It is made up of something that is either indivisible (photons, electrons), or is no longer of interest if divided up (protons, neutrons into up and down quarks).
Electrons, protons and neutrons
An element is a part of a compound.
No, they do not.
It varies from element to element. The number of particles is given by the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom.
Atoms and molecules
The atom is the smallest particle of an element that retains it's characteristics. Sub-atomic particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons form the atom and it is the amount of each of these sub-atomic particles that make the element that element.
electrons
The simplest form of an element is an atom. Subatomic particles are not a form of the element; they are a "building block" of an element.
atoms which have the same properties of that element
Yes, everything is made of tiny particles - if it is an element then the particles are atoms of that element, if it is a compound then the particles are molecules composed of atoms of the elements which make up the compound.
Atoms
atoms
Atoms
Hydrogen
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atoms
An element is a part of a compound.
element compound ion