We know that almost everything we see around us is made of "molecules" - groups of atoms joined together in specific patterns.
Molecules are groups of joined atoms. But in the past 100 years we have discovered another quite remarkable fact: atoms themselves are made out of even smaller particles! The study of these particles and their properties is called subatomic physics, and this is the kind of science we do at TRIUMF.
The name TRIUMF, incidentally, comes from TRI-University Meson Facility. ("TRI" is a prefix meaning "three", though by now there are five full partner universities and six associate-member universities involved; a meson is a special kind of subatomic particle that we can produce in large numbers at TRIUMF - billions of them per second.)
2007-01-12 21:25:45
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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The world is made of a bunch of psychotic murdering, animalistic primates... That is why we're not ready for any visitors with a more advance technology...The only species that kills for a sport and with the capability to destroy ourselves as well.
2007-01-12 21:28:11
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answered by Anonymous
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Well it is clearly made up of something as we are standing on it! In human terms that we can visualise and understand it is made up of things such as rocks, plants and animals. Going furter down the chain these things are made up of individual parts such as grains, roots & leaves and heart & lungs etc. Each o these is then made up of even smaller parts ad infinitum. Basically even when you get down to atoms and then subatomic particles...
Imagine a subatomic particle looks like a grain of sand, ball shaped or something. Imagine it under a microscope that is capable of magnifying it to the same size as a football. Now in order for that particle to exist it must be made up of something as must the space between the particles so this process goes on and on and on and we are not capable of visualising infinity so we just keep working down one step at a time. It's like chaos theory and fractals; look at the tip of a mountain then move in closer and look at one rock on that tip and it will look like a miniature mountain then look at a grain on that roak and it will still look like an even smaller mountain... ad infinitum!
2007-01-12 21:52:07
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answered by Pole Kitten 6
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In the centre is a solid core of mostly nickel/iron, then a layer of molten nickel/iron, then a mantle of molten rock( mostly olivene with impurities), then a solid crust which contains various combinations of silicon, aluminium, oxygen, calcium and all the other elements in small quantities.
2007-01-12 23:14:08
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answered by CLICKHEREx 5
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the world is made up of rock on the crust, hot semi-molten rock in the mantle and solid nickel and iron in the core.
2007-01-12 21:26:40
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answer #5
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answered by ina31806 1
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It it made up of everything on the pereodic table except those synthetic things like Uuh
2007-01-12 21:25:23
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answer #6
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answered by Mutley! 5
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Male and Female
2007-01-12 22:08:41
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answered by M.R.Palaniappa 2
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atoms, mass, nuetrons, lots of Godly love
2007-01-12 21:24:41
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answer #8
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answered by luvprincess 2
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it's made up of matter, atoms, microorganisms.
it's all a gift from our god.
2007-01-12 21:31:37
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answer #9
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answered by emani r 1
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This chart tells it all.
2007-01-12 22:03:07
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answered by gebobs 6
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