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Subject: How can people count subatomic particles?

Date: Sat Feb 5 12:38:22 2000
Posted by Karin Cramblit
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Area of science: Physics
ID: 949775902.Ph
Message:

  Thank you so much for your last answer.  It felt wonderful to see the
interest you put into the help you offered.  I am tutoring a homebound
student in his 7th grade introduction to chemistry.  He comes up with great
questions.  I am trying to apply  my 50 year-old-memories of high school
chemistry and my newly acquired, but limited, skills on the internet.
        Would you take on another of his questions? We've just studied 
atomic
numbers and understand they correspond with the number of protons in the
atom.  Lance would like to know how people can count subatomic particles.
How did the first scientists accomplish it and how is it done today?
        Thank you again, Karin.



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