What Matter is made of

What Matter is Made of

Element: a basic building block of matter ; a pure substance that cannot be broken down into anything simpler.

Compound: a chemical combination of 2 or more elements into a single substance.

Atom: the smallest unit of an element that still has the properties of the element.

Proton: a particle with a positive charge in the nucleus of an atom.

Neutron: an uncharged particle in the nucleus of an atom.

Electron: a particle with a negative charge moving around the nucleus of an atom.

Nucleus: the dense center part of an atom.

Molecule: a group of more than one atom joined together that acts like a single participle.