What are atoms made of and can they die?
For example, let’s look at chlorine atoms and sodium atoms. Chlorine is a gas, it is deadly toxic and extremely reactive. Sodium is an highly reactive, soft shiny metal that can cause a self igniting explosion upon contact with water. Now, if we combine sodium with chorine, we get sodium chloride which is just regular old table salt – and bears no resemblance to its two constituent parent atoms.
