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Atoms and isotopes GapFill

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The idea of an atom as a component of matter was first proposed by the ancient Greeks.
Thousands of years later, the first subatomic particle, the  protonionneutronelectron, was discovered, which is a negatively charged particle, much smaller than the mass of even the lightest atom. This led to J J Thomson proposing a model of the atom called the  treacle tartpeach cobblerpineapple upside-down cakeplum pudding model, which had these negative particles dotted through a larger ball of positive charge.
A scientist called Ernest Rutherford tried to prove Thomson's model right by shooting alpha particles at gold foil. Most alpha particles passed straight through the atoms making up the gold foil with only slight deflections, while some got deflected back at the alpha source – this didn't match Thomson's model at all! In fact, it suggested that most of the mass and all of the positive charge of the atom were concentrated in a small point at the centre of the atom, called the  nucleuselectronionisotope. It was later found out by both Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick that this positive central mass was made up of particles called  protonsprotons and neutronsneutronsalpha and beta particles, and is  1/1001/1 0001/100 0001/10 000 times the size of the atom.
A scientist called Niels Bohr proposed that electrons orbit this central positive mass at distinct distances called  energy levelsatomic orbitselectron heightsionic charges. Electrons can move between them by absorbing or emitting  other electronsionsalpha particleselectromagnetic radiation.

Atoms of the same element have the same number of  protons and neutronsneutronsnucleiprotons, which is known as the atomic number of the atom. The mass number of the atom is the number of  protonsneutronsprotons and neutronsnuclei in the atom.
Atoms of the same element can have different numbers of  protonsnucleiprotons and neutronsneutrons – these variations of one element are called isotopes.

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