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Spikeman197
1 year ago

Particles are the preamble… in chemistry for atoms, molecules, ions, in physics even for their building blocks and substructures!

ALL substances consist of particles! If you don’t want to make a mistake and you’re not sure, you can always talk about ‘dividing’.

Elements are substances that cannot be separated further into other substances. Sulfur consists only of sulfur particles, but water consists of water particles which can be separated further into hydrogen and oxygen.

Atoms are in principle the basic components of all substances. However, they can occur in several states. Nevertheless, at the end iron consists of iron atoms and sulfur of sulfur atoms.

Spikeman197
1 year ago
Reply to  samarahuf

Ultimately, you should try it. But you know natl. For a long time all (normal/light) elements! They are in the ‘periodic system of elements’ (PSE). Some have been known for centuries, if not millennia, others are artificially produced by atomic physics and only detected in traces.

Interestingly, it was thought, for example, in the discovery of fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine, that they were the oxides of still unknown elements, because there were ‘references’ for this. They were recognized as new elements only when they were dismantled.

Alex2000235
1 year ago
Reply to  samarahuf

Elemnte cannot be separated further, only mixtures of substances and compounds can be disassembled.

RedPanther
1 year ago

From the idea, atoms were the smallest building blocks from which all matter exists. We know now that this is not the case and that atoms also consist of smaller parts, but they have kept the name.

Elements are substances that consist of only one atom. For example, hydrogen gas consists exclusively of hydrogen atoms and gold consists only of gold atoms. Caution: While no other types of atoms are involved, it does not automatically mean that there are individual atoms. It is also possible to form molecules of similar atoms.

“Party” is a very vague term. In chemistry, however, this usually means the smallest building blocks of a substance, often molecules, e.g. ions, e.g. atoms.

MonkeyKing
1 year ago

Elements are certain types of atoms, and the number of protons in the atomic nucleus is what an element is. Z.b. has hydrogen only one proton and carbon 6.

“particles” is just a collective term for all possible elementary particles and there are countless of them: protons, neutrons, electrons, myons, phton, quarks, etc.

Kurzeilig007
1 year ago

Elements consist of atoms and atoms of elementary particles