The name atom comes from the Greek (ἄτομος) which means something that is undivided. Photography by Tomitheos©
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Although the name means 'one of' or something that cannot be divided further, very recently in the modern 20th century age with the principles of Quantum Mechanics physicists and scientists discovered the subatomic components / structure inside the atom and from this demonstrated that the atom was in fact divisible!
The atom is surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons and is fundamentally a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central nucleus . Bound with electromagnetic force to the nucleus are the electrons of an atom, forming together what is called a molecule. If an atom contains an equal number of protons and electrons it is electrically neutral, otherwise it is an ion that has either a positive or negative charge depending on the balance.
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My attempt to mimic the popnetic art graphics to resemble a degenerating dwarf star (that is very densely composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter with mass comparable to the Sun and its volume comparable to that of the Earth) expanding to a red giant, resonating thermal energy luminosity while approaching its mass transfer limit and going supernova via a process known as carbon detonation as its shedding its outer nebula energy layers from its collapsing hydrogen infused core.
