• Question: wagwan can you tell me if a proton is same as an electron?

    Asked by r34danny to Clare, Divya, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 8 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      They’re very different things, an electron is a very small negatively charged particle. A proton is nearly 2000 times bigger than an electron and is positively charged. If you put a proton and an electron together you get a hydrogen atom.

    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      What Ian said! 🙂

    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Have you seen the picture of an atom where there is a blob in the middle, with lines whizzing around the outside? The protons sit in the blob in the middle (with another particle called a neutron, which has no charge), and the electrons whiz around the outside. If you haven’t seen it before, then Google ‘atom’ and you will be able to see it in the pictures!

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Yeah what they said! (I’m just trying to get this question off ‘my unanswered questions’ list 🙂 )

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Proton is positive and electron is negative!

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