THE FUNDAMENTAL

COMPONENTS
OF THE
ATOM
THE SUBATOMIC
PARTICLES
 PROTON (p+)

 Has an electrical charge of positive one (+1)

 Said to be stable by itself
 A fairly
heavy particle and resides in the dense
nucleus of an atom.
 NEUTRON
 Has no net electric charge.
 Both proton and neutron make up the nucleus of an atom, thus,
these particles are collectively known as NUCLEONS.
 The nucleus is located at the center of an atom.
*almost all of the mass in an atom is comprised by protons
and neutrons in the nucleus.
 ELECTRON
 Has an electrical charge of negative one (-1).
 Are much smaller than neutrons and protons and
they are found revolving somewhere around outside
the nucleus because its mass is approximately
1/1,837 of the mass of proton.
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T
O
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Particle Symbol Mass(amu) Charge

Proton p 1 Positive

Electron e 1/1837 Negative

neutron n 1 No charge

THE SUBATOMIC
PARTICLES