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Can scientist see an atom

Updated: 8/10/2023
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13y ago

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Whether or not scientists have ever seen inside an atom depends on your definition of the word, "seen." Scientists have never been able to look at inside an atom with a tool like a microscope and look inside an atom with their necked eyes. They have been able to use particle accelerators and find out all sorts of things about the insides of atoms. They have seen how electrons are in orbitals around the nucleus. They discovered that protons and neutrons each consist of 3 quarks and 3 gluons. They discovered how they are arranged in the nucleus. They can hit millions of atoms with millions of protons or electrons. They can tell by the patterns they produce what is in the nucleus or in the orbitals around the nucleus. They use supercomputers to make sense of the data. I could not do a billion equations.

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Although it is extremely hard to see an individual atom, it has been done, by using the most powerful available microscope technology.

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Yes. With microscopes.

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