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Planetary Model

November 2, 2010

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The planetary model is the most familiar model or illustration of the structure of the atom. Since the ancient Greeks physicists agreed that the atom existed. However it was believed to be the smallest cohesive unit of matter until the experiments [...]

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Democritus

January 4, 2010

The atomic model is not as modern as you might think. It is actually as old as Greek civilization. While science drew from many cultures to get where it is now, the Greek natural philosophers are the first to come up with an atomic theory and logical process for reasoning natural phenomena. The birth of [...]

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Atomic Models

September 21, 2009

The concept of a small indivisible unit of matter has existed since ancient times. However, it was more of a philosophical concept than a scientific one. It would be several centuries later that scientists would start to gather concrete evidence that it existed and more important, how it looked like. The first understanding of the [...]

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Rutherford Atom

September 13, 2009

The Rutherford Atom is undoubtedly the most popular model of the atom. You see it being represented in various science-related logos. That’s right, I’m referring to the logos comprised of three intersecting elliptical shapes, each accompanied by a small circle, with a bundle of circles at the geometrical center (see image on the left). The [...]

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