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History of an Atom

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show Early Greeks, Democritus  
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First believed atoms were indivisible.   show
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show The Early Greeks, Democritus  
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show John Dalton  
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show John Dalton  
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first beleived Atoms of the same element are alike and atoms of different elements are different.   show
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show John Dalton  
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show All matter is made of atoms which are indivisible and indestructible; Atoms cannot be destroyed  
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show Atomic Theory  
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Difference between Dalton and Early Greek's theories:   show
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created the "plum pudding model"   show
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thought an atom is a ball of positive charge with negatively charged particles (like the chips in chocolate chip cookie dough)   show
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show J.J. Thompson  
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show Ernest Rutherford  
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show Ernest Rutherford  
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Thompson to Rutherford: what's the same?   show
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Thompson to Rutherford: what's different?   show
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show Neils Bohr  
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show Bohr  
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theorized An atom has a small, positively-charged nucleus (containing protons and neutrons) surrounded by a large region where there are as many negatively-charged electrons as there are protons in the nucleus.   show
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theorized The electrons do not move around the atom in a definite path, but whiz around it in different directions. While there are regions where electrons are more likely to be found (called energy levels or orbitals,) it is impossible to determine the   show
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theorized The electrons go around the nucleus and each electron spins as it moves, like the earth spins.   show
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show Both discuss the proton/neutron attractions. Both refer to electron orbits as “energy levels”.  
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Bohr to the Modern Model: What's different?   show
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