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HOW SMALL IS AN ATOM? Date
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OBJECTIVE: HOW SMALL IS AN ATOM? WRITE AN EXAMPLE YOU CAN REMEMBER.
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GOLD ATOMS USING A SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE
An atom is the basic unit of an element. An atom is a form of matter which may not be further broken down using any chemical means.
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LET’S NAME SOME REAL SMALL THINGS Bead
Pebble
One strand of hair
A cell
Bacteria
Virus
Molecule
Element
Subatomic particle
Where does an ATOM fit?
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The building blocks of matter are called atoms. Yet you may be wondering what, exactly, is an atom? Here's a look at what an atom is and some examples of atoms.
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DEPENDING ON THE ATOM… Looking at one grain of sand, there are as many atoms in that grain as there is sand on the beach.
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IF A GRAPEFRUIT WERE THE SIZE OF THE WORLD, AN ATOM WOULD BE THE SIZE OF A BLUEBERRY.
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-An atom is 0.0000001 of a millimeter in diameter -If you were to line up atoms in a single file line, you would need 40, 000,000 to make a line 1 cm long.
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If you could shrink yourself down and be able to walk across the head of a pin for a few days, you would barely get to the other end and just then be able to be at the level of recognizing atoms.
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The atom is the fundamental building block of all stuff, or what scientists like to call "matter".
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An individual atom is very small. In fact, the smallest type of atom, hydrogen, has a diameter of 10-8
cm.
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This means that if the hydrogen atom was the size of a soccer ball, then a soccer ball would be 6450 kilometers (4008 miles) high. Every single object is composed of atoms.
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Your body is made up of many, many individual atoms.
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THERE ARE ALSO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ATOMS. IN FACT, THERE ARE OVER 100.