Atomic Theory
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is the study of atoms. Atoms are the smallest forms
of matter that can still be considered/recognized as elements. Atoms are
what make up everything on our earth, from molecules to monkeys. Atoms are
joined together to make molecules, which are in turn joined together to
make everything else. To g ....
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.... the same amount of a gas in a
container and then wighing it. In the 20th century, most scientists used
oxygen as the standard gas to compare other gases' weights. It is relativly
easy to measure the weights of liquids and sloids, the same procedure for
gas is followed, more or less. In the early 1960s, though, the
international union of chemistry and physics agreed that there would be a
new standard, carbon isotope (carbon-12).
British physicist Ernest Rutherford found and proved that an a ....
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