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Calcium (Ca)
 An electron is an atom.

 It consists of negative electric charge.

 It is considered an element as it does not have

any known smaller particles in it.

 Compared to the other parts of an atom, an

electron is very small.
 Electrons are less then 0.06% of an atom’s total
mass.

 A proton has a mass that is about 1836 times of

an electron’s mass.

 All the electrons from an atom creates a

negative charge which will balance the positive
charge from the protons in the atomic nucleus.
 Electrons are found in a cloud which surrounds
the nucleus.

 Electrons move very fast, so it is impossible to

find out where they are at a specific time.

 Atoms do not have an overall electrical charge,

going by the definition.
 This means that there must be a balance
between the protons and electrons.

 From here, we can infer that an atom has an

equal number of protons and electrons.
 The element that is the opposite of an electron
is a positron.

 A positron is similar to an electron.

 The difference between them is that a positron

consists of electrical and all the other charges
that has the opposite sign as the electron.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron
 http://www.chem4kids.com/files/atom_electron.html
 http://education.jlab.org/qa/pen_number.html
 http://www.windows2universe.org/physical_science/physics/a
tom_particle/electron.html
 http://www.phy6.org/Education/welect.html
 http://books.google.com.sg/books?
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 http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/electrons/