In chemistry and physics class, they visualise them as plastic marbles with sticks to connect them to eachother, but what is the true shape of an atom? It also contains quarks and has spinning electrons and neutrons around it. Is it a cloud? How does atomic matter actually look?
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Your example is a molecule, not an atom.
Atoms are a nucleus with electrons orbiting around it in a cloud.
Molecules are multiple atoms joined together.
Each “marble” is an atom and the “sticks” are the molecular bonds.
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