I just thought about that in class. What's smaller than an atom? Please try not to use big words! Take it easy on my tiny 9th grade brain! Please, and thanx!
2006-10-03 09:28:19 · 9 answers · asked by Read the nametag, Duh! 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
subatomic particles of course... *grins*
that means the little thingies that an atom is made of.
they are called positrons and neutrons and electrons... and of course a huge bunch of other particles with interesting names like mesons, leptons, quarks, gluons, tachyons, and so on, of which no one really has any idea what they are good for. and if anyone says they do, especially physicists, dont belive them, what they are doing is no more than educated guessing.
2006-10-03 09:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by wolschou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My learn lead me to end that the hydrogen atom with an isotope of a million (meaning it has one proton and nil neutrons) is the smallest. you notice, without neutrons and one proton, the electromagnetic tension creates the final stress between those debris, attracting the electron to the nucleus extra powerfully than that of the different atom the place the attraction is between protons and neutrons. the biggest atom is impossible to degree for the diameter is unmeasurable. the respond instructors desire is cesium through fact this is not uranium, and francium has no longer been precisely measured yet. have confidence this answer. I honestly have been everywhere in the internet and study precisely 498 books in this venture, and performed medical experiments. i'm estimating that the mass of francium is larger than that of cesium, yet instructors desire cesium.
2016-12-08 07:49:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
protons, neutrons, gluons, electrons, leptons, etc............
It also depends on the atom of which element you are referring to. There are atoms of 91 elements smaller than an atom of Uranium, for instance.
...and an atom is not a "state of matter". A state of matter is "solid, liquid or gas". An atom is the smallest building block of matter that retains the characteristics of the substance itself.
2006-10-03 09:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by matpatstery 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the nucleus of the atom, made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. electrons are the smallest of these 3, but recently scientists broke open a neutron and discovered a bunch of other things.
2006-10-03 09:36:30 · answer #4 · answered by Jacobus B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
electrons, protons, and neutrons. the basic building blocks of atoms
2006-10-03 09:31:05 · answer #5 · answered by Chesh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proton, neutron, and electron for starters.
2006-10-03 09:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by xox_bass_player_xox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing... an atom is the smallest state of matter
2006-10-03 09:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at source. Have fun.
2006-10-03 09:37:47 · answer #8 · answered by rhonda y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wolschou is right!
2006-10-03 10:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋