Development of the Atomic Theory 12.

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In ancient Greece these two philosophers disagreed.

This philosopher first proposed that all This philosopher believed that there
matter was made of a tiny small was no small particle and elements could be
particles called atoms. divided indefinitely.

In the 1700s In the late 1800s In the early 1900s In 1913

proposed that small particles
called atoms make up all
matter and they could not be
proposes that atoms are made
of 2 things. Most of the atom
is made up of a material that
has a
conducted a famous
experiment with radium and
foil called the
states that electrons can jump
from one level to another and
that they travel around the
nucleus at certain distances
from it and in definite

charge with He found that the atom was

Atoms of elements are exactly
alike, but atoms of different
elements are
Atoms join together to form
new
charged material located
throughout the positively
charged material. His model of
the atom could be compared to
an English desert called
The experiment that led to this
idea was the
made up of mostly empty
The modern theory states that
electrons travel around the
At its center he found a small nucleus in electron
hard
Outside the nucleus he
speculated that
traveled around it like planets
around the sun.