I walk on the beach, hearing and feeling the waves. I become mindful of the waves of energy flowing throughout the universe, resonating in every atom* in every molecule. There are more molecules* in the human body than there are stars in the sky. Atoms. Molecules. How can I reveal to children such minute amounts of matter, of mass?
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Web Definition: |
atom - (physics
and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical
properties of the element |
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Web Definition: |
MOLECULE - A
collection of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds; the
smallest unit of a compound that displays the properties of the compound.
(Latin, moliculus, a small mass). |
This illustration of a water molecule is helpful in that it does not show the atoms actually pegged together. Feeling the forces between magnets gives a sense of the electrostatic forces that bind the atoms to each other to form molecules.
Chapter Six - Land of the Lost Trace Gases - Heated Matters.
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