What is an electron neutron and protron?

Answer 1

Atom's were the smallest thing that we knew of in our universe, until one day a long time ago we split the atom and begun to take a look inside.

In the center of an atom are proton's and neutron's. The center is also called the nucleus.


Moving around the center of the atom are electrons. Electron's are now the new 'Smallest' thing known to man.


Electrons have a negative charge
Protons have a positive charge and
Neutron's have a neutral or no charge (some atoms may not apply to this rule)


From the information of how many Electrons/Protons and Neutron's you can discover certain qualities and the family/place in the Periodic Table of elements.


I've added links to help you further in understanding Atoms.
In an atom a proton is a positive charge, an electron is a negative charge and a nuetron is a neutral charge.

Protons are attracted to electrons, due to opposite charges.

Electromagnetic force pulls them (Protons and Electrons) together.

Protons and neutrons are found in the nucleus (center of the atom).

Answer 2

Protons, neutrons and electrons are subatomic particles. They are the three fundamental particles which make up atoms. Electrons are very tiny in comparison with protons and neutrons; protons and neutrons clump together as the nucleus of an atom whilst electrons zip around them in orbit.

Protons has a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge and neutrons are neutral (have no net charge). This means that protons will tend to repel protons magnetically (but in an atomic nucleus, the strong nuclear force binds them together much more strongly than protons repel each other). What differentiates different element atoms is the number of protons in the nucleus; the only atom with one proton in its nucleus is Hydrogen (and conversely, all Hydrogen atoms have one and only one proton in their nuclei), the only atom with two protons is Helium and so forth. Electrons generally match protons in number, but an atom may gain or shed electrons to become an ion, or share electrons with other atomic nuclei in molecules; thus, the atom of an element may or may not have the same number of electrons as other atoms of the same element. The number of neutrons in the nucleus of an atom may also vary to form different isotopes of that element. As stated, however, an element is defined by the number of protons in its nucleus and the number of protons in its atomic number.

Answer 3

An electron is the particle in an atom which is negatively charged and has no mass. A neutron is the particle in an atom which has no charge but a mass of 1 and a proton is the particle in an atom which has a positive charge and a mass of 1.

Answer 4

Protons, neutrons and electrons are the main components of an atom. Protons have a positive charge; electrons have a negative charge; and neutrons have a neutral charge. Protons and neutrons comprise the nucleus of an atom, while the electrons are distributed in valance shells around the nucleus.

Answer 5

an electron is a negatively charged particle

a proton is a positively charged particle

a neutron is a neutrally charged particle

these particles make up every atom

the neutrons and protons make up the nucleus while the electrons orbit around the nucleus

an electron is about 1/2000 the size of a neutron or proton

Answer 6

An atom is a fundamental particle of matter and it consists of three types of particles protons, electrons and neutrons

Electrons are tiny, very light particles that have a negative electrical charge (-)

Protons are much larger and heavier than electrons and have the opposite charge, protons have a positive charge.

Neutrons are large and heavy like protons, however neutrons have no electrical charge.

Answer 7

They are the constituent parts of an atom. The central part of an atom is called the NUCLEUS and consists of two parts- a positively charged PROTON and a NEUTRON which has no charge at all. These two parts constitute the greater part of the atom.

This nucleus is surrounded, at some distance, by a swarm of millions of tiny particles called ELECTRONS, which are negatively charged. The opposing charges of proton and electrons balance each other out and ensure the atom remains stable.

Answer 8

They are sub atomic particles. Atom is made by them.