Atom vs. Adam — What's the Difference?

The smallest unit of an element, having all the characteristics of that element and consisting of a very small and dense central nucleus containing protons and neutrons, surrounded by one or more shells of orbiting electrons. Atoms remain undivided in chemical reactions except for the donation, acceptance, or exchange of valence electrons.

Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם‎‎, Modern: ʼAdam, Tiberian: ʾĀḏām; Aramaic: ܐܕܡ; Arabic: آدَم‎, romanized: ʾĀdam; Greek: Ἀδάμ, romanized: Adám; Latin: Adam) is a figure in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Bible, and also in the Quran. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, he was the first man.

An atom is the smallest unit of ordinary matter that forms a chemical element. Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of neutral or ionized atoms.

Relating to or characteristic of the elegant neoclassic style of furniture and architecture originated by Robert and James Adam.

A part or particle considered to be an irreducible constituent of a specified system.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

The irreducible, indestructible material unit postulated by ancient atomism.

"Original sin;" human frailty.

An extremely small part, quantity, or amount.

(Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race

This unit regarded as a source of nuclear energy.

Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)

The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.

Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

(history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.

The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.

(philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.

(historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.

A mote of dust in a sunbeam.

A very small amount; a whit.

An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.

(mathematics) A non-zero member of a partially ordered set that has only zero below it (assuming that the poset has a least element, its "zero").

An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.

An age group division in hockey for nine- to eleven-year-olds.

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

To reduce to atoms.

(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything