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A unit of matter, the smallest unit of an element, consisting of a dense, central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons, equal in number to the number of nuclear protons, centimeter and characteristically remaining undivided in chemical reactions except for limited removal, transfer, or exchange of certain electrons.
John Dalton
An English scientist called John Dalton put forward his ideas about atoms. From his experiments and observations, he suggested that atoms were like tiny, hard balls. An element is a substance made from only one type of atom. An element cannot be broken down into any simpler substances. Element had its own atoms that differed from others in mass. Dalton believed that atoms were the fundamental building blocks of nature and could not be split. In chemical reactions, the atoms would rearrange themselves and combine with other atoms in new ways.
In many ways, Dalton's ideas are still useful today.
J.J. Thomson
At the end of the nineteenth century, a scientist called J.J. Thomson discovered the electron. This is a tiny negatively charged particle that is much, much smaller than any atom.
Thomson proposed a different model for the atom. He said that the tiny negatively charged electrons must be embedded in a cloud of positive charge (after all, atoms themselves carry no overall charge, so the charges must balance out). Thomson imagined the electrons as the bits of plum in a plum pudding.