Can atoms be created by man?

A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called “synthetic”, “artificial”, or “man-made”.

Is it possible to create atom?

Atoms form elements and thus are all around us. We can also make new atoms, by one of the two processes: nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. Fusion is the reaction in which smaller nuclei come together to form larger nuclei. The process of creating atoms is very difficult; in general scientists don’t do this.

Can atoms be created and destroyed?

Actually atoms can be created and destroyed at a very tiny scale and for a very short period of time. Think about the universe before Big Bang there were no atom but now we find we have atoms molecules etc. Actually the first law of thermodynamics states that the total amount of energy in closed system can neither be created nor be destroyed.

Is it true that no one has seen an atom?

No one has ever really seen an atom. Humans like to see something before they believe in it. I am sure there are some people who object to that since there have been claims that electron microscopes have imaged atoms.

How do scientists change one atom into another atom?

Scientists regularly use other methods for changing one atom into another atom (one element into another element.) Nuclear fission (the thing that made the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War 2 work) causes a nucleus to split in to two pieces of roughly the same size.

Who was the first person to write the word atom down?

He was also the first person to write the word atom down. For these reasons Democritus was given credit for the idea and the name. Those ancient Greeks became really good at sitting around thinking, but they weren’t all that good at building instruments to prove their thoughts and ideas.