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.
Where does the word atom come from and who first used this word? Around 2,500 years ago this Greek dude name Democritus was sitting around just thinking. He was thinking about cutting stuff up and came up with the idea that there must be a point where you could no longer cut something any smaller. He named the atom after the Greek word atomos, which means 'that which can't be split.' The cool part is that he was right. Well, 90% right. We can split atoms, but if you split an atom it becomes something else. An atom is the smallest unit of a particular kind of material.