When you hear the word “atom,” what occurs to you? If you’re familiar with chemistry or physics students when you were in secondary school (or, you’re still in secondary school yourself), or, in the alternative, you were/are a science student yourself, then, definitely the word “atom” shouldn’t be very un-familiar to you! All the same, for the sake of carrying-along all of our audience here on this blog, we wish to say that the word “atom” is simply that word that we use in the sciences, and particularly in physics, chemistry and biochemistry, to describe that “minutest” particle of “matter.” Remember that “matter” simply means “material” – whether in the solid state (e.g. your phone), or in the liquid state (e.g. your favourite drink), or in the gaseous (“gas”) state, (e.g. the breath of your nostrils!) “Matter” is that word that is used, in science, to refer to ‘everything’ that exists and can be felt, handled OR “experienced” and “encountered” in any manner, whatsoever, in this phys...