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ATOMIC STRUCTURE

ELEMENTS:
The simplest from of a substance which can’t further be broken down into
simpler from by any chemical means

ATOMS
An atom is the smallest part of an element that can take part in a chemical
change.
Atoms are very small. The diameter of a hydrogen atom is approximately 10-10
m and its weight is 1.67 x 10-27 kg.

The structure of Atoms:


Every atom has nearly all of its mass concentrated in a tiny region in the
center of the atoms called the nucleus
• NUCLEUS:
The nucleus is made up of particles called nucleons. There are two
types of nucleon:
1. PROTON:
2. NEUTRONS

Atoms are tiny, but the nucleus of an atom is far tinier. If the diameter of an
atom were size of football stadium. Then the nucleus would be the size of a pea in
the middle.

Alpha-particle:
The nucleus of helium after removal of 2e-

Observation of Rutherford particle experiment:


1. Most of the alpha particle fired at gold foil or gold atoms passed
through it without any deflection.
Conclusion: atoms contains a lot of empty spaces.
2. Alpha particles passing close to the center deflected away
Conclusion: center of atoms is positively charged
3. Approximately 1 out of 10,000 particles fired at gold atom
returned back
Conclusion: the positively charged center is very small compared
to size of an atom
SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLE:
SUB ATOMIC SUMBOL RELATIVE MASS RELATIVE
PATICLES CHARGE
electron e 1/1836 -1
neutron n 1u 0
proton p 1u +1

Proton number(z)
Number of protons present in an atom
Nucleon number(A)
The sum of number of protons and neutron
No of neutron = nucleon no – proton no
Practice question
Use the information in the table to deduce the number of electrons and
neutrons in neutral atom of:
Atoms nucleon number Proton number
vanadium 51 23
strontium 84 38
phosphorus 31 15

Representation of elements in periodic table:


Nucleon no
40 Ca symbol of elements
20

Atomic number
14 N3- no of electrons gained during reaction
7

27 N3+ no of electrons lost during rection


13

Practice question
Find no of electron in HCO3-
answer: 32

ISOTOPES
Atoms of the same element that have different number of neutrons is called
isotopes
Isotopes have small chemical property but different physical property

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