What is the smallest particle of an atom?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

No. The individual components of the atom are also considered matter.

As for what the smallest particle is, we have gone past the electron and are now at the level of a quark. In 20 years, the answer may probably change again as we get better and better at seeing deeper into what makes matter.

Answer 3

No, an atom is not the smallest particle with mass. The atom is made up of smaller particles (protons, neutrons and electrons), and these also have mass. Further, protons and neutrons are made up of fundamental particles called quarks. Quarks and electrons are fundamental particles, and are smaller than an atom.

Answer 4

well the smallest atom is the solid or crystal to my knowledge

Answer 5

Protons and neutrons are made up of 3 quarks each. Hence a quark is the smallest particle in an atomic nucleus

Answer 6

There are somethings that are smaller than atoms (e.g. the electrons, protons and neutrons that make up the atoms) but atoms are fundamental (basic) particles that make up everything else.

Answer 7

The atom is the smallest particle of an element that retains the chemical and nuclear properties of the element.

Answer 8

The smallest particle of an atom is the electron. Electrons are negatively charged particles that orbit around the nucleus of an atom.

Answer 9

Element.