Though no such equipment actually exists yet, imagine a tool that would allow you to cut a sample of el the tiniest of known particles. Using such a tool, you could take a piece of gold and cut it in half. Taking
halves you continue to cut it in half and each of the subsequent halves further cut in half. As each piece
smaller and smaller, you continue to cut until you had the smallest whole particle of matter that containe
chemical properties, or characteristics of gold. That ending particle would be
a proton
b a molecule
an atom
d. a quark
a
C