who discovered that  atoms contain mostly space
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Are atoms mostly empty space? Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms contain mostly empty space, with his gold foil experiment. Bhor discovered that the electrons are not randomly placed around the nucleu … s.
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History of science Dalton's Atomic Theory Democritus first suggested the existence of the atom but it took almost two millennia before the atom was placed on a solid foothold as a fundamental chemical object by John Dalton (1766-1844). Although two centuries old, Dalton's atomic theory remains valid in modern chemical thought. 1) All matter is made of atoms.
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This Month in Physics History Rutherford carried out a fairly simple calculation to find the size of the nucleus, and found it to be only about 1/100,000 the size of the atom. The atom was mostly empty space.
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- Yes in fact Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms contain mostly empty space, with his gold foil experiment. He discovered that the electrons are not randomly placed around … the nucleus. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/What_scientist_said_atoms_contain_mostly_empty_space#ixzz17NE5I4gI. 3 people found this useful.
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Main He did an expirement that involved shooting a beam of particles at a thin sheet of gold. Through this he discovered that there is a small, dense, positively charged nucleus; most of an atom’s mass in the atom’s nucleus; atoms contain mostly empty space; electrons move in empty space in the atom.
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Atomic nucleus The nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.
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Why are atoms mostly empty space? It appears to be the standard thing to say that 'atoms are mostly empty space'. This implies that the constituents of the atom, the electrons and nucleus (quarks at the most fundamental level) are something other than empty space, like little bits of matter, that they take up space.
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Atoms, Ions and Isotopes 1899 and 1911; helped show that there are two types of rays, alpha and beta (gamma was discovered later), performed the gold-foil experiment which showed that the structure of the atom was mostly just empty space, and the existence of the nucleus as a dense center.
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- One of the most important figures in modern cosmology is the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He discovered a universe of galaxies outside the Milky Way and showed that the entire universe is expanding. In the early 20th century, most astronomers believed that the universe did not extend beyond our Milky Way galaxy.
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- The smallest particle of an element that can exist is called an atom. John Dalton first proposed this in 1807. Today sophisticated instrumentation can take pictures of single atoms and nuclear physics has identified particles (forces) that make up the subatomic particles (protons, electrons, and neutrons).
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- – Surprisingly, some of these Greek ideas led to similar modern ideas. Democritus (462-370 B.C.): proposed that all matter was made up of tiny, indivisible. particles called atomos (meaning “indivisible”) or atoms. Empedocles (490-430 B.C.): suggested all matter was composed of four basic elements: air, water, fire, and earth.
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Who Discovered the Atom? Antoine Lavoisier was the one who proposed that the atom could not be divided by methods used in chemistry. It was Dalton however, who relied on experiments to prove their existence. In 1827, Robert Brown used a microscope to observe the motion of dust in water.
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Dalton's Atomic Theory John Dalton (1766-1844) was an English scientist who made his living as a teacher in Manchester. He is best known for his atomic theory. John Dalton was aware of these observations and in about 1808 he offered an explanation for them that became known as Dalton's atomic theory.
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- 1803 - atomic theory. John Dalton, English chemist, revived the term of the atom when he suggested that each element was made up of unique atoms and the atoms of an element are all the same. He formulated his theory that chemical reactions result from the union and separation of these atoms and that atoms have characteristic properties.
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- Thompson is famous for discovering the electron and he did through a series of experiments. He knew that is an electric current was passed through a vacuum tube, small glowing particles could be seen. He interpreted that the glowing stream bent toward a positively charged plate.
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- Atoms are made of 99.99999% space, so it turns out that what we call reality is mostly space with a little bit of a jiggle—a little vibratory fluctuation or, as described in quantum theory, a waveform generating what we call atomic structure.
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Chem Rutherford's atom. Rutherford knew that atoms consist of a compact positively charged nucleus, around which circulate negative electrons at a relatively large distance. The nucleus occupies less than one thousand million millionth (10) of the atomic volume, but contains almost all of the atom's mass.
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- John Dalton developed an atomic theory in the 1800s. He did experiments, worked out some atomic weights and invented symbols for atoms and molecules. His most important conclusions are summarised below: All matter is made of atoms. Atoms cannot be broken down into anything simpler.
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Timeline of the Atom- Scientists & their ideas. Democritis is a Greek scientist whoose discovery, in 400 BCE, lead him to theorise that everything is made up of void and atoms. Depending on the arrangement, the density varies with less void being denser. His discovery has helped the development of the modern atomic theory.
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Atomic nucleus After the discovery of the neutron in 1932, models for a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons were quickly developed by Dmitri Ivanenko and Werner Heisenberg. Almost all of the mass of an atom is located in the nucleus, with a very small contribution from the electron cloud.
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- Chapter 5-7: An atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by electrons. 1  Important information on the structure of atoms came from an experiment conducted by Rutherford in 1910.
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Atomic nucleus The nucleus was discovered in 1911, as a result of Ernest Rutherford's efforts to test Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom. The electron had already been discovered earlier by J.J. Thomson himself. Knowing that atoms are electrically neutral, Thomson postulated that there must be a positive charge as well.
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How did James Chadwick contribute to the atomic theory? Nov 18, 2014. James Chadwick played a vital role in the atomic theory, as he discovered the Neutron in atoms. Neutrons are located in the center of an atom, in the nucleus along with the protons. They have neither a positive nor negative charge, but contribute the the atomic weight with the same effect as a proton. Chadwick discovered this subatomic particle by using a neutron chamber in his experiments. Here is a link to a visual design of his experiment: http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphy/neutron/neutron4_1.htm Hope this helped!
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Who discovered the atom? Then in 1897, Thompson discovered the first component part of the atom: the electron, a particle with a negative electric charge. Discovery of the Atom. By the 19th century, technology had advanced greatly and many elements had been discovered to work with.
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- Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher who was very interested in matter. He wanted to know what things are actually made of. He was the person who developed the idea of atoms. The word atom comes from the Greek word atomos which means uncuttable.. Democritus believed that if you tried to cut matter into the smallest pieces possible, you would eventually get a very small particle that is indestructible and could not be cut.