The smallest particle in gold should in fact be gold. Gold is an element, Au, and thus should only contain gold atoms. You could also argue that some subatomic particle is the smallest particle in gold.
A single gold atom.
An atom of gold.
A single gold atom.
a atom
An atom is the smallest particle of an element that still has the chemical characteristics of that element
An Atom
The smallest particle of an element that still has all the properties of an element is an atom of that element.
The smallest part of any chemical element that can exist is an atom of that element. The smallest part of a chemical compound that can exist is a molecule 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.
An iron atom is the smallest iron particle that still has the properties of iron.
An atom is the smallest particle of an element that still has the chemical characteristics of that element
An atom is the smallest particle that is still recognisably the element
An Atom
A molecule is the smallest particle of a compound that still retains its properties. An atom is the smallest particle of an element that still retains its properties.
This particle is the atom.
An atom
A molecule is the smallest part of a compound that still retains the properties of said compound. As the atom is the smallest particle of an element into which it can be divided and still retain all the properties of that element, the molecule is the atom's analog for a compound.
The atom.
An atom is the smallest particle of an element that can be uniquely identified as that specific element.Note that this question is different from asking "What is the smallest particle in an atom?" (see related question below). Atoms are composed of smaller particles (protons, electrons, and neutrons), but the smallest thing that has the identity of a specific element is the atom.The smallest particle of an element that still retains all that element's properties is called an ATOM.
The smallest particle of an element that still has all the properties of an element is an atom of that element.
That's an atom of gold. An atom is the smallest representative particle of an element.