Introduction to lanugo: Before birth, a baby is covered with lanugo, a fine soft hair over most of the body â everywhere except the palms, soles, lips, penis, nails, and the sides of the fingers and toes. This soft prenatal hair is called lanugo hair. Most of the time, most of this hair is shed during the 7th or 8th month of pregnancy.
460 BCE- 370 BCE. Page 1. Democritus is an ancient Greek philosopher who first used the word âAtomâ. Democritus created the theory of the atom and he concluded that all mater is made up of the invisible particles called atoms.He also said that matter cannot come from nothing and matter is a âcombination and recombinationâ of atoms.60 BCE- 370 BCE. Page 1. Democritus is an ancient Greek philosopher who first used the word âAtomâ. Democritus created the theory of the atom and he concluded that all mater is made up of the invisible particles called atoms.
The Greek model of the atom is a simple one: take anything you like, break it down in smaller and smaller amounts and then you'll arrive at the most fundamental unit of that â¦ particular stuff, whatever it is. That is the atom. This was a philosophical idea and not science as we know it, but it was amazingly accurate. We know that the smallest unit of stuff nowadays can be an atom or a molecule as regards chemical elements or chemical compounds, but the Greeks just thought this up with nothing but brain power.