Components of an atom is call what?
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A more generic term for the components of an atom is "sub-atomic particles."  I think that's the answer you're looking for.
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Elements with this property are called noble gases or inert gases.\n\nHelium, argon, neon, kyrpton, xenon and radon.
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CHEMISTRY I: ATOMS AND MOLECULES\nTable of Contents\nAtoms | Electrons and energy | Chemical Bonding | Chemical reactions and molecules\n\nLearning Objectives | Terms | Review Questions | Links\nAtoms | Back to Top\n\nMost of the Universe consists of matter and energy. Energy is the capacity to do work. Matter has mass and occupies space. All matter is composed of basic elements that cannot be broken down to substances with different chemical or physical properties. Elements are substances consisting of one type of atom, for example Carbon atoms make up diamond, and also graphite. Pure (24K) gold is composed of only one type of atom, gold atoms. Atoms are the smallest particle into which an element can be divided. The ancient Greek philosophers developed the concept of the atom, although they considered it the fundamental particle that could not be broken down. Since the work of Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, we now know that the atom is divisible, often releasing tremendous energies as in nuclear explosions or (in a controlled fashion in) thermonuclear power plants.\n\nSubatomic particles were discovered during the 1800s. For our purposes we will concentrate only on three of them. The proton is located in the center (or nucleus) of an atom, each atom has at least one proton. Protons have a charge of +1, and a mass of approximately 1 atomic mass unit (amu). Elements differ from each other in the number of protons they have, e.g. Hydrogen has 1 proton; Helium has 2.\n\nThe neutron also is located in the atomic nucleus (except in Hydrogen). The neutron has no charge, and a mass of slightly over 1 amu. Some scientists propose the neutron is made up of a proton and electron-like particle.\n\nThe electron is a very small particle located outside the nucleus. Because they move at speeds near the speed of light the precise location of electrons is hard to pin down. Electrons occupy orbitals, or areas where they have a high statistical probability of occurring. The charge on an electron is -1. Its mass is negligible (approximately 1800 electrons are needed to equal the mass of one proton).\n\nThe atomic number is the number of protons an atom has. It is characteristic and unique for each element. The atomic mass (also referred to as the atomic weight) is the number of protons and neutrons in an atom. Atoms of an element that have differing numbers of neutrons (but a constant atomic number) are termed isotopes. Isotopes can be used to determine the diet of ancient peoples by determining proportions of isotopes in mummified or fossilized human tissues. Biochemical pathways can be deciphered by using isotopic tracers. The age of fossils and artifacts can be determined by using radioactive isotopes, either directly on the fossil (if it is young enough) or on the rocks that surround the fossil 9for older fossils like dinosaurs). Isotopes are also the source of radiation used in medical diagnostic and treatment procedures.\n\nNote that each of these isotopes of hydrogen has only one proton. Isotopes differ from each other in the number of neutrons, not in the number of protons. Image from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates (www.sinauer.com) and WH Freeman (www.whfreeman.com), used with permission.\n\nSome isotopes are radioisotopes, which spontaneously decay, releasing radioactivity. Other isotopes are stable. Examples of radioisotopes are Carbon-14 (symbol 14C), and deuterium (also known as Hydrogen-2; 2H). Stable isotopes are 12C and 1H.\n\nCarbon has three isotopes, of which carbon-12 and carbon-14 are the most well known. Image from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates (www.sinauer.com) and WH Freeman (www.whfreeman.com), used with permission.\n\nThe Periodic Table of the Elements provides a great deal of information about various elements. An on-line Periodic Table is available by clicking here, or if that is busy try a mirror site.\n\nThe Periodi
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The internal structure of an atom (in terms of its protons and neutrons) will create regions which are called orbitals.  We commonly think of atoms according to the Bohr model, where electrons orbit the nucleus like little planets.  This model is wrong.  the truth is that we can only determine the location of an electron based on a statistical model, and that gives us regions where electrons are more likely or less likely to be found if we searched for them there.  These areas where electrons are most likely to be found are called orbitals.\n\nThe orbitals differ in energy states.  An electron in a high orbital needs high energy, and electrons with less energy will be at lower orbitals.  When the number of electrons and protons are equal (ie the atom is not an ion) and the electrons occupy all of the lowest energy orbitals possible, that is called the ground state.\n\nif an electron at the ground state gets extra energy, it can jump to a higher orbital.  However, the various orbitals require certain, specific amounts of energy, and the energy gaps between the orbitals are specific amounts of energy, based on the orbital structure dictated by the nucleus (the details of all of this require some of the ugliest differential equations and eigenfunctions you're likely to ever see).  So the energy absorbed by an electron to jump from a low orbital to a high orbital must be of a specific amount.  After time, the electron will eventually relax back to the lower orbital.  When it does, it will release its excess energy in the form of a photon with the precise amount of energy that spearates the two orbitals.\n\nFor a given atom, there is a certain number of specific orbital transitions possible, and each possible transition will correspnd to a single band on the spectrum produced by the pure element when heated to.  So while a given atom can give several colors, the number of colors it can give are limited.
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A molecule is made up of atoms.
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monatomic elements don't have molecular structures, molecules do.  your question is therefore confusing.\n\nelements have different isotopes (more or less neutrons)\n\nmolecules have different isomers (same number of elements, just connected differently)
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it is very simple, the shells, subshells actually represent energy levels in the atoms. it is just like big building having different storeys and them again the rooms. You can compare storeys as shells, and individual apartments as subshells and the rooms in each apartment as orbitals where we the electrons are revolving
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Element talks about the chemical identity.  How one atom is not like another.\nAtom talks about the particular entities.\n\nElement is a general term while atom is a specific term.\nSo you can speack of the element so and so and be describing the substance and its properties for example as that element is in all the universe.
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In scientific terms atoms are the smallest possible particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties. All atoms are made of the same basic elements, protons, neutrons and electrons , but each of the individual elements are made from different organizations of these materials. The basic structure of an atom is the nucleus, which is made of protons and neutrons (except hydrogen which only has a proton), and the electrons which, to over simplify it, "orbit" the nucleus. Elements are defined however by the number of protons in the nucleus, carbon always has 6 protons in it's nucleus, oxygen always has 8.\n\nAtoms are found EVERYWHERE. Everything you are, the air you breath, the things you smell, are all made of atoms, as others have said, it is the basic building block of everything, literally nothing would exist without them.\n\nIsotopes, contrary to what was said above, are in fact atoms, just a special kind of atom. The have the same amount of protons in their nucleus, hence they stay the same kind of element, but the have a different number of neutrons. I said above that hydrogen doesn't have a neutron in it's nucleus, and a standard hydrogen atom doesn't, but an isotope of hydrogen does, it's called deuterium, and it has 1 proton and 1 neutron in it's nucleus.\n\nDon't feel bad if you don't get it still, it really takes a class in chemistry to really get a handle on what exactly it all means. Good luck.
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The number of protons is equal to the number of electrons (unless it is an ion), but in this case they are equal. The atomic number is equal to the number of protons, and the mass number is the number of protons plus the number of neutrons.
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proton and neutron, the electrons are on the outer shell
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1)electron ...(also negative meson)\n2)the atom is the basic (many atoms make molecule and so on)\n3)polymer (the most famous are protiens)
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Hydrogen.  To be more specific, the H1 isotope.  The deuterium or H2 atom is only one in eight thousand of all hydrogen atoms.\nThe second most common element, helium, is less than 10%.  All others together are a minor component, no matter how important to us.
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Don't know who told you that "atoms only consist of energy", but in general, that's nonsense. Atoms consist of electrons and the nucleus (protons and neutrons, which again are made up from quarks), and these particles have a well defined rest mass. Einsteins theory of relativity is well proved and gives us the famous equation E=mc^2 for the energy equivalence of a rest mass, *which does not mean that energy and mass are the same*. It just means that you can transform energy and mass into each other and are equivalent in a certain (relativistic) way.\n\nSo if you want to make a fool out of yourself: Go ahead and try to disproof Einstein, like thousands of fools have tried before. If you're really interested in physics, go and get some good books about the basics, and you're welcome to come back with some more serious questions.
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Protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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This is a homework question & better not be one of my students! LOL\n\nThe answer is atom.\n\nClassic textbook question. For those of you who thought the question was confusing, take it up w/ the authors of high school textbooks. I will gladly back you up on it. LOL\n\n:)
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Atoms are combinations of protons and neutrons with electrons flying around. They form the basic "elements" of matter.\n\nThe nucleus of an atom has protons and neutrons (except for hydrogen which has one proton). There are about the same number of protons and neutrons in each nucleus, although for larger nuclei (like uranium) there are more neutrons.\n\nAll of these particles have a variety of specific characteristics. For example an electron has a negative charge and a proton has a positive charge, while the neutron is neutral. The charge of the proton and electron are identical except for the sign.\n\nProtons and neutrons are both made of quarks. A proton has two "up" quarks and one "down" quark, while the neutron has two "down" quarks and one "up" quark. (The up and down are just names for these two types of quark, there is no physical significance to the name. They could have selected \nChocolate and Vanilla instead.)\n\nProtons and neutrons are almost always described as being composed of three quarks, but there are also gluons running around. Gluons are the particles which control the interaction of quarks within a proton or neutron. They carry the force that binds the three quarks together to form the larger particle.\n\nSo a proton or neutron has three quarks and a cloud of gluons.\n\n(Just as an aside: If one combines a proton and an electron and a neutrino you will get a neutron, but, in the oddness of quantum physics that doesn't mean a neutron is made of these little guys.)\n\nElectrons on the other hand seem to have no consituents, at least down to the level that has been probed with modern instruments.