{"id":1300,"date":"2016-04-29T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/biologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=1300"},"modified":"2024-04-25T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:24:07","slug":"outcome-atoms-and-elements","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/chapter\/outcome-atoms-and-elements\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Atoms and Elements","rendered":"Introduction to Atoms and Elements"},"content":{"raw":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Define atoms and elements<\/h2>\r\nYou're probably familiar with the concept of atoms. They are the fundamental unit of matter\u2014everything is made up of atoms, which come together in unique ways to form different things. Before you can understand chemical reactions, you must first understand the way that atoms work.\r\n\r\nOver the years, scientists have used different models to visualize atoms as our understanding has changed. You may be familiar with a few of the models in Figure 1. In this course, we largely use the Bohr model.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_5635\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]\"Four Figure 1. The evolution of atomic models over the years. As our understanding of atoms has evolved, the models we use to depict them have changed. The first model is the Thomson model, followed by the Rutherford model, the Bohr model, and the Heisenberg\/Schr\u00f6dinger model.[\/caption]","rendered":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Define atoms and elements<\/h2>\n

You’re probably familiar with the concept of atoms. They are the fundamental unit of matter\u2014everything is made up of atoms, which come together in unique ways to form different things. Before you can understand chemical reactions, you must first understand the way that atoms work.<\/p>\n

Over the years, scientists have used different models to visualize atoms as our understanding has changed. You may be familiar with a few of the models in Figure 1. In this course, we largely use the Bohr model.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. The evolution of atomic models over the years. As our understanding of atoms has evolved, the models we use to depict them have changed. The first model is the Thomson model, followed by the Rutherford model, the Bohr model, and the Heisenberg\/Schr\u00f6dinger model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t

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