The smallest particle of an element that exhibits its charactertics is an atom true or false?

true or falseThe smallest particle of an element that exhibits its charactertics is an atom true or false?
trueThe smallest particle of an element that exhibits its charactertics is an atom true or false?
The definition of an ';atom';:





atom


the smallest particle of a chemical element that still exhibits the characteristics of that element. An atom constitutes protons and neutrons in its nucleus and levels of orbiting electrons.
yes, although an atom can be broken down into neutrons protons and electrons, they loose their elemental charictaristics.
True
absolutely true, there is nothing smaller than atom in an element?
true
fals-o
true
true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My english is not to good...but if you split an element down to atom size, you can get trouble...It may not be stabile...


But i am not sure if this is your question...
TRUE
It's true.
I'm not sure they keep finding all these new particles...I would say true though.





A quark or photon or whatever will not display the characteristics of the element.
Depends on which characteristics you mean... For the chemical ones it is true, also true for such physical features such as absorption spectrums. For characteristics like melting/freezing and boiling point it is not true since these features require atomic groups (these are macroscopic characteristics, like there is no way for a single atom to evaporate is there), i think there needs to be at least a couple of hundred atoms to interpret macroscopic features.


All in all, for most things atoms are the smallest such particles, but there are some characteristics that need atomic aggregations.
that is true In chemistry and physics, an atom (Greek 峒勏勎课嘉肯?or 谩tomos meaning ';the smallest indivisible particle of matter, i.e. something that cannot be divided';) is the smallest particle still characterizing a chemical element.
true!