Question

what is the properties of an atom ?​

Answer 1

The properties of an atom are :

• The atomists declared that each atom is uniform, and that they are homogeneous, colorless, tasteless, and indivisible.

• According to Democritus atomist universe each atom moves about the void space, collide and attach to each other to form compounds.

• Atoms have secondary qualities but these could be reduced to primary qualities of their component atoms.

• In other words the secondary qualities of a compound are completely determined by and reducible to the primary qualities of its component atoms.

• The movement of an entire system of atoms is just the sum of the movements of all its individual component atoms