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As we all know Atom is smallest particle of an element still having the same chemical properties of the element. There are 2 sextillion atoms of oxygen in one drop of the water. Particles smaller then Atom are called subatomic particles. Electrons, protons and neutrons are the three major subatomic particles. Today scientists understand that protons and neutrons are made of even smaller particles called quarks which are tied together with particles called gluons.

It is believed that an atom is made of 200 or more than 200 subatomic particles because it is told that in an atom there is so much space and electrons take only 1/1000th volume. That space may have more subatomic particles in it and according to the calculations there may come more than 200 subatomic particles. Bellow is the picture of atoms of gold produced by electronic microscope.

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lauralikesithard at at 07:47AM, Sep 22nd 2011.

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josh at at 02:54PM, Apr 26th 2011.

what i dont get this

josh at at 02:53PM, Apr 26th 2011.

... Atoms are cool

Daijah at at 01:53PM, Apr 14th 2011.

so every matter thAt you see have atoms likes Humans?

Daijah at at 01:48PM, Apr 14th 2011.

this makes no sense to me because im only 11 i understood the time travel thing but this is hard to make sense of i mean if there is about 200 subatomic particles and 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a drop of water then there would be about 400 sextillion subatomic particles in one drop of water good thing i studied large numbers(;

kysen at at 05:52PM, Nov 9th 2010.

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Admin at at 09:14AM, Sep 21st 2010.

Get A life! really.....who has time to sit here and argue about Atoms? gosh, nobody cares about your opinions.

Built Ford Tough at at 08:36AM, Sep 21st 2010.

actually you are all right in your own way and lots of you are going of the ball and making silly mistakes evidently there are lots of subatomic thingys but what this guy is trying to point out that we are on a breakthrough here. it cant be made of nothing because everthing is made of something. think for yourselves people scientists are wrong there is no such thing as a vocume or a god particle creating everthing. everthing is made of something and just because we don't know what it is does not mean it is nothing. honestly you are all as dimbwitted as scientist. back to the point the thing mayank was saying is that there could hundreds of new substances in the atom we have not discovered.

jj34256 at at 02:16PM, Sep 15th 2010.

hi.

SM3LLY at at 12:50PM, Jun 9th 2010.

this is not what i wanted

Savannah Dunlap at at 09:11AM, May 12th 2010.

i dont understand this. it somehow sounds stupid when i read it!

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HAhahahaHAHHAHAHA at at 05:25AM, May 12th 2010.

lol

smurf at at 10:40PM, Mar 24th 2010.

actually the atom is made up of particles called tau's...dumbasses

joe makram at at 02:09PM, Mar 21st 2010.

Atoms make up everything, they are the world!

lauren at at 08:25AM, Feb 25th 2010.

Not very scientific! Just because there is a lot of empty space in an atom that does not mean that there are lots of subatomic particles. If there were then htere would not be much empty space!

krutto at at 02:35AM, Jan 26th 2010.

Not very scientific! "There are more than 200 subatomic particles because there is so much space"?1?1?1 What kind of drivel is this?

krutto at at 02:32AM, Jan 26th 2010.

Zachary wrote: #
Actually, even a proton contains subatomic particles like gluons, leptons, etc.

SUT UP

paul at at 10:18AM, Jan 21st 2010.

The "blog" is not factual! What has happened to proving the veracity of any post???????

krutto at at 05:50AM, Jan 14th 2010.

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payaza at at 12:35PM, Nov 13th 2009.

This is complete rubbish, i thought this was called interesting 'facts'. Where's this come from? Maybe because there's over 200 known subatomic particles? but that doesn't mean that they're all found in a single atom.

Jake at at 06:58AM, Jul 5th 2009.

DB, if only it were that simple!!
Dorian, your closer... an electron however is actually a fundamental particle, it isnt made up of anything simpler, like its higher-energy equivelants the muon and the tau. It does have its corresponding neutrino if thats what you meant?
You're right with the proton being a baryon ie. made up of 3 quarks, and you're charges are right, but its up - up - down...

JD73 at at 07:09PM, Jun 17th 2009.

Imagine an O, with a dot in it. Now, you see all that emptiness? That's what this is about. Somehow, electrons hover or orbit the nucleus, never touching it. That is why we really "never" touch eachother. Given the mass we can see, there is an empty mass we can't see. Like our solar system. If we combined all the planets, we still wouldn't be able to fill the emptiness of the solar system. We'd probably fall into a similar ratio, of 1% or something of the sort.

Keith at at 03:38AM, Mar 21st 2009.

Hydrogen is 1 proton and 1 electron
electrons are composed to two elementary particles.
Protons are composed of 3 quarks,I believe top top bottom,but Im not sure.

Dorian at at 03:05PM, Jan 19th 2009.

There are other subatomic particles in atoms as well as just electrons protons and neutrons. For example 3 quarks make up a proton etc. There are also particles such as baryons, mesons, photons, neutrinos, bosons, leptons and hadrons

Lizzie at at 01:57AM, Dec 31st 2008.

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