Scientist can break atoms to get still smaller particles. In the light of what you have read in this chapter, do you think that a broken atom of say gold, will have the same properties as an atom of gold?
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- A ‘broken atom of gold’ won’t have the same properties as an ‘atom of gold’.
- It is because when an atom is broken, it breaks into its subatomic particles of “electrons, protons, and neutrons”.
- This is because, in nature, the atom itself is the smallest wholesome unit of matter where all the chemical properties of an element are retained.
- Upon further disintegration, the properties are not retained. A gold atom needs to retain as a whole atom to retain its properties.
- A gold coin formed by the union of a number of gold atoms reflects the properties of a gold atom.
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