Something Smaller Than an Atom Atomic Structure

Something Smaller Than an Atom Atomic Structure 

In this chapter, I tell you about atoms, the fundamental building blocks of the universe. I cover the three basic particles of an atom — protons, neutrons, and electrons — and show you where they re located. And I use a slew of pages on electrons themselves, because chemical reactions (where a lot of chemistry comes into play) depend on the loss, gain, or sharing of them. 

The atom is the smallest part of matter that represents a particular element. For quite a while, the atom was thought to be the smallest part of matter that 

Scientists now recognize that there are many subatomic particles (this really makes physicists salivate). But in order to be successful in chemistry, you really only need to be concerned with the three major subatomic particles  

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