Often, scientists who want to demonstrate chemical bonding use models with colored balls to represent atoms. What are the chemical models of bonding based on?

philosophical discourse since atoms are submicroscopic

the work of JJ Thompson, creator of the Plum-Pudding model

scientific data that has been gathered by experimentation

photographs of atoms that show their different colors and sizes

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Often, scientists who want to demonstrate chemical bonding use models with colored balls to represent atoms. What are the chemical models of bonding based on?
 
philosophical discourse since atoms are submicroscopic
 
the work of JJ Thompson, creator of the Plum-Pudding model
 
scientific data that has been gathered by experimentation
 
photographs of atoms that show their different colors and sizes

superhelp101 · Answer

@ParthKohli is it the 1st option

superhelp101 · Answer

@amoodarya can u help???

anonymous · Answer

Probably,is the first option. The atomic idea was created on greece, by an philosoph called Democrito . We dont have any experiments to prove that its like that, and i dont think we have photos too. Thats just what i think. Hope it helps you!

superhelp101 · Answer

Yes! that sure does I was thinking that too! thank you berry much!!