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2006-09-07 10:27:50 · 6 answers · asked by the dude who knows it all 1 in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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This is kind of like the little kid who asks "why?" to every answer you give him.

You cannot subdivide materials forever. There are fundamental building particles in our universe used to build up everything else. These are point-like particles with only a few properties such as mass, charge and spin. The two families of fundamental particles are the quarks, used to build particles such as protons and neutrons, and leptons, which include the electron.

2006-09-07 11:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by SAN 5 · 0 0

It does not consist of anything: it is an elementary particle. Many experiments have attempted to determine whether it has some sort of internal structure (like, for example, a proton does); all such experiments have come up dry.

2006-09-07 10:30:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

An electron is part of a carbon atom. The atom contains a nucleus, neutrons, protons and electrons. When a carbon atom is heated up the electrons begin to spin faster and faster until one of them comes off and goes to the next atom. This causes an imbalance and that atom heats up and starts to spin. This is a chain reaction that produces electricity. Hope this helps.

2006-09-07 10:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Cal 5 · 0 2

An electron is an extreamly small subatomic paticle, which is basicly not made up of anything. An electron has a mass of 9.11X10^-31kg, a charge of 1.60X10-19C and a magnetic moment of 9.28X10^-24J/T.

2006-09-07 11:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Scott S 4 · 0 0

i think its one of the smallest particles in and of itself

they used to say proton, neutrons, electrons were the smallest possible particles

now they say quarks, gluons, other stuff too

I don't know

2006-09-07 10:31:19 · answer #5 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0 1

apparently u don't know much if you don't know that. Naw j/k..but i'm in chemistry and never studied an electron that much.

2006-09-07 10:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by sweetchick 1 · 0 1

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