• Question: What all atoms consist of ?

    Asked by Sonia045 to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 8 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by Mbm_8486.
    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Atoms are made up of three different kinds of particles: neutrons and protons in the core, the nucleus, and electrons moving around on the outside. Different atoms have different numbers of these particles. Thank you for this question. 🙂 It had been a long, long time since I last thought about these things so I hope I’m not wrong, but if I am, I’m sure the others can correct me.

    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Ines’ answer matches my vague memory of this from school!

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I am glad Ines jumped in and answered this one… i would certainly have had to do a bit of researching to find out, it has been a very long time since i looked at them!

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Atoms are made of protons, electrons and neutrons. Different atoms are made of different numbers of each of these 3 things. They are called sub-atomic particles.

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      OOooo

      An atom consists of electrons surrounding protons and neutrons. The number of electrons, protons and neutrons depend on which element we are looking at. For example Oxygen atoms have 8 of each and Nitrogen atoms have 7 of each.

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