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How Do Atoms Change Over Time

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Look around, animals, tables, pens, all have one thing in common. They each are made of matter and matter is made of atoms (OI). The atom is the basic building block of all matter. It is the smallest unit of all matter. Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of atoms. Scientific ideas about its structure have changed over time. Over time different scientist, chemists, philosophers and physicists have changed the structure of the atom over time.
Atoms were first proposed in 450 BCE by Ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus. They thought that matter is made of atoms (Doc.1). Then later, in 1911, physicist Ernest Rutherford proved that atoms were made of smaller particles, concluding they had a positively charged nucleus

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