What is Atom? Who discovered Atom?

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Akshay A
9 years ago
Atoms are the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. Atoms can join together to form molecules, which in turn form most of the objects around you.

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alka kumari
9 years ago
Atom is the smallest unit of the element. It is said that it was discovered in India but they had worth it in sankirt that Y it doesn't came to light. http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/indian-sage-who-developed-atomic-theory-2600-years-ago-001399 You may check this information on t

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Ragini Roy
8 years ago
All the matter made up of extremely large no. of tiny individual particles is called an atom. John Dalton discovered Atom.

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8 years ago
Smallest particle of an element which contains all the properties of that element is called atom. In a chemical reaction where two or more elements are involved to form a compound, the constituents elements participate in their atomic state - and the smallest part of the compound thus formed is mole

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sai kasa
8 years ago
Atom is a very small particle. Atoms are different in shape. A group of atoms form a molecule. A group of molecules forms a thing. It was discovered by Robert.

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Sandesh Sapra
9 years ago
It is good to see that you are asking a question but the shiksha platform is to guide regarding career questions, not educational answers.

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A
9 years ago
Atom is the smallest constituent unit matter that has properties of a chemical element. It was discovered by J. J. Thomson.

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omkareshwar panda
9 years ago
Atom is the smallest unit of an element. It was discovered by John Dalton.

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A
9 years ago
John Dalton discovered the atom.

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Hi Aishwarya, Are you in 12th standard?

mani  khanna
9 years ago
Hi, An atom is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that has the properties of a chemical element. In general, atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford, but there is an entire timeline to this discovery which you can check here: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-scientists-who-di

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