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    The document discusses the development of atomic theory over time from ancient Greek philosophers to 20th century scientists. It describes the contributions of Democritus, Aristotle, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr to developing understanding that atoms are composed of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by electrons.

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    The document discusses the development of atomic theory over time from ancient Greek philosophers to 20th century scientists. It describes the contributions of Democritus, Aristotle, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr to developing understanding that atoms are composed of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by electrons.

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    of 3

    Ernest Rutherford did an

    experiment with positively


    charged particles in gold foil. He
    proved that atoms are not
    John Dalton was an english pudding made with positively
    chemist in the 1800s. He charged materials. He came up
    performed a number of with a theory that atoms have a
    Democritus was from Ancient experiments that led to the idea
    Gtreece. He wanted to find a small dense positiverly charged
    of atoms. He believed that all center. That is the theory that he
    description of matter. He matter is made of atoms are very
    thought it could be broken down discovered the nuclues.
    tiny and indestructible. He also
    into smaller and smaller pieces used the theory “death of
    until it’s eventually indivisible. chemistry,”
    He called these atoms.

    300 BC 1897 1913

    400 BC 1803 1908


    Aristotle was the popular Bohr was a danish scientist who
    philosopher in ancient greece. JJ Thompson was an english proposed on improvement to the
    He believed that all matter had 4 scientist in 1897. He came up atomic model he had built on the
    elements. Fire air water and with the first hint that an atom is theory that mass of an atom is
    earth. He also believed that it made of even smaller particles. contained in the nucleus most of
    had 4 properties which were hot He discovered the plum pudding the time. These orbits in his
    cold dry and wet. His ideas were model which is the negative model are located at distances
    accepted for centuries. particle of an atom. The theory from the nucleus. .
    he came up with was that atoms
    are made from positively
    charged susbstances and
    electrons that are negatively
    The atomic theory today is that the atomic
    cloud electrons do not orbit the nucleus in
    planet like orbits. They move at high speeds
    in an electron cloud around the nucleus. They
    whirl around the nucleus many many times in
    a second but they do not move in random
    patterns. This theory was further thought
    through in the 20th century.

    20th
    century
    1. Who discovered the electron? 1. What does atom mean?
    a. Dalton a. Small
    b. Thomson b. Visible
    c. Rutherford c. indivisible
    d. Bohr d. Particle
    2. What did Rutherford discover in his experiment? 2. Who is “responsible” for the 2000-year “Death of Chemistry”?
    a. Nucleus a. Aristotle
    b. electrons b. Democritus
    c. neutrons c. Thomson
    3. In which model are atoms imagined as tiny balls? d. Dalton
    a. Dalton 3. Rutherford’s “gold-foil” experiment using alpha particle scattering
    b. Thomson concluded that
    c. Rutherford a. The center of the atom is empty
    d. Bohr b. Atomic mass is spread over the whole atom
    4. Who proposed a model with electrons moving in specific layers? c. The center of the atom has a negative charge
    a. Dalton d. Most of the atom is empty
    b. Thomson 4. In which model are atoms imagined as the solar system?
    c. Rutherford a. Dalton
    d. Bohr b. Thomson
    c. Rutherford
    d. Bohr
    e. Cloud Model

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