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What would you get if you break an element into its smallest particles?
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What are the smallest particle of an element?
The smallest particle of an element would be an atom. Any smaller and it would not be an element, but something more basic. Atoms are made of Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons. Protons and Neutrons are made of Quarks, Leptons, and Bosons.
What is the difference between smallest particle of element and smallest particle of compound?
To understand, you first need to understand the difference between an element and a compound. An element is any element from the Periodic table. For example, oxygen. A compound is a substance in which more than one element are bonded chemically. This is not to be confused with a mixture, which is simple a mixture of substances with no chemical bonding. An example of a compound would be water, consisting of hydrogen and oxygen bonded together.Now that we've established to difference between an element and a compound, we can explore what the smallest particle of each is. The "smallest particle" is the smallest you can go while still keeping the properties of the original substance.The smallest particle of an element would be an atom. But when dealing with compounds, if you break them down to atoms, then those atoms don't have the same properties as a compound. The smallest particle of a compound is a molecule. In our example of water, a water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, chemically bonded together. The molecule, consisting of three atoms, has the chemical properties of water. But if you break it down so you just have an oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, none of them would have the properties of the original compound (water).Thus, the smallest particle of an element is an atom, and the smallest particle of a compound is a molecule. The difference between the two is that an atom is an atom, and a molecule is two or more atoms chemically bonded.
What is the smallest unit of an element and still maintains the characteristics is?
That would be AN ATOM.
An atom is the smallest building block of an?
The basic unit of matter is an atom. It is also the smallest part of an element that retains all the properties of that element. Since your question ended with an... I would say element fits best.
Democritus thought that matter was made of tiny particles that?
He asked the question: If you break a piece of matter in half, and then break it in half again, how many breaks will you have to make before you can break it no further? Democritus thought that at some point one would get to a smallest possible bit of matter. He called these basic matter particles, atoms. Atom in Greek means "indivisible".
What would you get if you could break an element into its smallest particales?
An atom
Would the smaller particles within the carbon atom have the properties carbon?
No. The smallest particle of an element that has the properties of that element is an atom.
What is the smallest particle of an element called?
The smallest basic particle of an element is an atom. Atoms and molecules formed of them are the smallest particles that have the physical and chemical properties of the element. Atoms, however, are made of smaller particles: electrons, protons, and neutrons, of which the electron is the smallest. There are various supplementary particles that connect or interact with them (e.g. mesons). These atomic particles are formed by the combination of constituent particles called quarks, which do not normally exist in uncombined forms (where, oddly, they would have much greater mass than the particles they constitute).
What are small Particles that make up all substances?
If the substance is an element, the smallest will be an atom. If it is a compound, then that would be a molecule.
Is it true that atoms are the smallest particles on the planet?
No It is not true that atoms are the smallest particles in the planets. The smallest particles are electrons, protons, neutrons, and others.
What is the smallest particle of a substance that has all the particles of a substance?
For an element, it would be an atom. For a molecular substance, it would be a molecule. If it is an ionic compound, it would be a formula unit.
Is the smallest part of an element an atom?
yes.
What does Lithium have in it?
Lithium is an element. As such, it has no other substance in it, it is pure lithium. If you wished to analyse it further, you would have to break it down into subatomic particles.
Smallest part of a compound that has all the particles of that compound?
A molecule is the smallest particle of a "compound" being that compounds are made up of more than one atom. The smallest particle of any "chemical element" that retains its properties would be the atom.
Why is it inaccurate an atom is the smallest part of an element?
It would be inaccurate because atoms are made of subatomic particles, which actually make up the element. These subatomic particles have either a positive, negative, or neutral charge. The positively charged particles are called protons. The negatively charged particles are called electrons. The neutral particles are called neutrons. The protons and neutrons are grouped together in the nucleus of an atom, with the electrons orbiting around.
The smallest unit of element?
That would be the individual atoms.
Is a molocuel the smallest particle of an element?
No. That would be an "atom".
