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Atom - from hypothesis to certainty

Ales Lacina

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The concept of atoms should not be taken for granted. It was developed relatively recently and based on observations in the fields of thermal phenomena, crystallography and chemistry and the crucial discovery of Brownian motion.


PACS

05.40.Jc Brownian motion

01.65.+g History of science

Subjects

Education and communication

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 6 (November 1999)

Received 19 May 1999, in final form 22 June 1999



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