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Which term is used to describe the smallest particle retaining all the properties of a substance element ion or molecule?

For a substance the term is molecule, for an element the term is atom.


What is a particle or an atom?

Particle is a generic term that can refer to any little thing from an electron to a quark to a proton to an atom to a molecules to a little speck of junk. Relative to everyday experience, atoms are minuscule objects with proportionately tiny masses. Atoms can only be observed individually using special instruments such as the scanning tunneling microscope. Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in the nucleus


What is the representative particle of potassium?

A representative particle is thought of as the smallest unit into which a substance may be divided without changing its composition. Some examples might be helpful. For a given chemical element, it's an atom. An atom of carbon is the smallest unit of carbon one can find.For covalently bonded compounds & diatomic molecules, the representative particle is a molecule. For example, an atom of hydrogen and an atom chlorine covalently bond to make a molecule of hydrochloric acid (HCl), and that's the smallest unit of this compound that there is. Because a molecule is a group of 2 or more atoms covalently bonded together, the smallest particles of ionic compounds are the respective ions. For example the smallest particle of the ionic compound sodium chloride (NaCl, or table salt) is a sodium ion (Na+) and a chlorine ion (Cl-).There is a "scaled up" application in physics and engineering, and it might apply to something like a grain of wheat being the representative particle of that grain crop. A kernel of corn might be the representative particle for that grain crop. A grain of salt might be the representative particle for granular salt as a market commodity. These are important because of considerations regarding density and "close packing" and "voids" in bulk quantities of each commodity. There are more examples of the application of the term if one looks.A given size granule of an aggregate might be the representative particle for analysis in something like moisture penetration in sand, small pebbles, or chunks of rock.On the other end of the scale, there are representative particles for certain applications in the physics lab where something like the characteristics of a particle beam may be under consideration. A certain particle of given mass and energy might be the representative particle for, say, the study of particle beam divergence.Most applications for the student will be in chemistry, and that's where the atom, molecule or, possibly, the ion, will be shown to be the representative particles of an element, a compound, or an electrolytic solution respectively.


What is the smallest formed element in the blood?

Thrombocytes are the smallest formed elements in the blood. In my Medical Terminology book, it says "The smallet formed elements found in blood are platelets. Although they are sometimes called thrombocytes, they are not true cells, as the term erroneously suggests, but merely fragments of cells."


Explain the different between an atom and a element?

an element is somehimg which cant be broken into any simpler form........... atom is the smallest particle of as element or a compound.. all the properties of an element are decided on the basis of its atomic structure

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Define the term atom?

the smallest particle of an element that has chemical property of the element


Which term is used to describe the smallest particle retaining all the properties of a substance element ion or molecule?

For a substance the term is molecule, for an element the term is atom.


Which is the order of particle size from largest to smallest?

The term 'particle' broadly encompasses any relatively small piece of matter, but in particle and nuclear physics, quarks and electrons are smallest, followed by protons, then neutrons.


What is the term for the smallest element in an electronic image?

A pixel.


What is the difference between an atom and a particle?

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains the properties of that element, consisting of protons, neutrons, and electrons. A particle, on the other hand, is a general term used to describe any subatomic entity, including atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, and other smaller particles like quarks and leptons.


Is the smallest natural particle of sodium chloride an atom or a molecule?

The more adequate term is "formula unit".


Which term represents the formula Hg?

Hg is the chemical symbol of mercury.


What is the term for a particle composed of two or more non metal atoms?

A substance composed of two or more atoms of the same element is just a pure substance/element, a substance composed of different atoms is called a compound


What does the term basic unit of matter refer to?

The term "basic unit of matter" refers to an atom, which is the smallest unit of an element that retains the properties of that element. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.


What does term atom mean?

the smallest component of an element having thechemical properties of the element, consisting of anucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleusby electrical attraction; the number of protonsdetermines the identity of the element.an atom with one of the electrons replaced by someother particle: muonic atom; kaonic atom.


Whats the smallest unit of a substance that behaves like a substance?

A molecule of the substance. An atom of an element may exhibit different characteristics when it is bound to other atoms of the same element. Examples are common oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3) with altered chemical properties. Or carbon as graphite (hexagonal lattice) and diamond (tetrahedral lattice), which demonstrate very different physical properties.


What is the term used to describe the smallest possible element in a computers memory?

The term used to describe smallest possible element in computer memory is byte. Some people may say bit. But logically, that's incorrect. Each character is represented by 8 bits or 1 byte. In Unicode it is represented by 16 bits or 2 bytes.