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cut up a pizza
How do you cut up a pizza? What if you kept on cutting and cutting and cutting? What is the smallest piece you can cut? What is the smallest part of the pizza that you would still call pizza?
cut up an elephant
Elephants are made of many things. What are some of the things that make up an elephant? If you cut up an elephant, would any of the parts be another elephant?
cut up salt
Take the smallest grain of salt. Lets cut it up until we cant cut it up anymore.
Na+
We can draw simplied diagrams of atoms. The plus sign in this diagram indicates that the Sodium atom pictured has a positive charge. Sodium atoms have an even number of electrons, therefore they carry a positive charge. Some atoms have a negative charge.
Na+
Cl-
In this diagram, atoms of Sodium (Na) and Chloride (Cl) share an electron to form a molecule of salt.
Gold cannot be separated into atoms of different kinds. All of the atoms in gold are gold atoms. The smallest piece of gold is a gold atom. Therefore, gold is an element. What element do you use to ll up balloons that oat in the air?
Homogenous
Heterogenous
Mixture of chocolate milk
Example Air Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in soda Gasoline Metal alloys such as sterling silver (silver and copper)
elements
Weve talked about these elements: SODIUM CLORIDE GOLD HELIUM Can you name any other elements?
Elements are often presented in a table called the Periodic Table of Elements.
This table presents important information about elements. You will understand the table when you know more about atoms.
Quarks are one kind of sub-atomic particle. Maybe you can cut a pizza up until you get to the quarks.