Question

Which statements accurately describe atoms? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

Answer:

Atoms are smallest unit of matter

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:Atoms cannot be divided.

Atoms were named in the fifth century BCE.

Atoms are the smallest unit of matter.

Explanation:

Atomic theory originated as a philosophical concept in ancient India and Greece. The word 'atom' comes from the Latin word 'atomos' meaning indivisible. The idea was put toward by Leucippus and his student Democritus in the fifth century BC. The idea of atoms was recorded by Lucretius the Roman poet hence it survived the dark ages and the idea was revived by Antoine Lavioser when he applied it in the formulation of the law of conservation of mass in 1789.