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smallest unit in a digital system is a
A quark is the smallest particle in matter.
An atom is the smallest bit of matter that isn't a sub-atomic particle. Minerals are made of atoms.
Yes. A bit is the smallest unit of data.
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smallest unit in a digital system is a
A quark is the smallest particle in matter.
Smallest amount.
An atom is the smallest bit of matter that isn't a sub-atomic particle. Minerals are made of atoms.
Yes. A bit is the smallest unit of data.
The smallest units of matter are the subatomic particles.
We could say what the second smallest piece of matter if we knew what the smallest piece of matter was. Since the smallest pieces of matter known are quarks-down, strange and bottom have the lowest charge -3, they can be regarded as the first, second and third smallest particles.
An atom is the smallest bit of matter. Atom is from the Greek, and means cannot be cut.The 'tom' bit means cut or divide, and is the root word behind tome (part of a volume), micro-tome (a cutting machine), tomography ( a means of visualizing slices of tissue). But only maybe for tomahawk.
Democritus came up with the idea that there was an ultimately small bit of matter that could not be divided any further. He called this "atomos" for "indivisible". Much later, what we call the atom was discovered. As researchers at the time thought that it was the smallest bit of matter, they called it the "atom", after the Greek "atomos". Ever after, poor Democritus has been called wrong, as teachers gleefully point out that the atom can be divided! Yet Democritus never said that what we call the atom was the smallest bit of matter. He simply hypothesized that there would be such a thing as an indivisble bit of mattter, and it was that and that alone he called "atomos". So the Greeks did not believe any one thing was the tiniest bit of matter. They simply believed that there was such a thing, regardless as to what exactly it would turn out to be.
An atom is the smallest building block of matter that retains the characteristics of that matter.