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To Democritus the atom looked like a marble. Democritus theorized that matter could only broken down into pieces of a certain size. These pieces which could not be broken any further were called atoms.
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The Greek philosopher Democritus coined what word for a tiny piece of matter that cannot be divided?
Atoms
Who are the founding fathers of the atom?
Professor J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick are the founding fathers of the atom.
On which Japanese city was the second atom bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
Why is Rutherford's gold foil experiment important?
Coz frm dis experiment...it was concluded that atom had concentrated +ve & -ve charge & relatively large mass. As most of the alpha particles passed straight through the foil,this shows that most of the atom is empty space. Thus he concluded that an atom was made of a very dense,positevely charged nucleus surrounded primarily by empty space in which electrons could be found.
Who was president when albert Einstein came up for the idea of the atom bomb?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Who made the Latin name for atom?
Some say that Democritus named the atom "ATOMUS" which means "invisible" others say John Dalton but i would go with the former (Democritus).
Why did Democritus discover atoms?
The atom was not discovered by Democritus; Leukipus an Democitus proposed the notion of atom, but only intuitively, not experimentally.
The concept developed by Democritus was the?
The Atom.
Coined the word atom?
Democritus
Who had the first idea about atom?
democritus
What is the achievements of the Greece philosopher Democritus?
Democritus and his mentor Leucippus postulated the existence of the atom.
How did Democritus define atom?
An atom is an indivisible part of all matter.
Who is famous for the idea of an atom?
Democritus from Abdera
Who was the first person to identify the atom?
Democritus.
Who made the mental model of the atom?
Democritus
Who did not have experimental evidence to support his of the atom?
Democritus did not have experimental evidence to support his idea of the atom. Instead, his idea was based on philosophical reasoning and speculation.
Who discovered atom before John Dalton?
democritus
