And even though pilots flying for large American airlines earn good pay, most such aviators don't work for the big carriers. The majority of commercial airline pilots fly for small regional carriers, earn starting pay around $20,000 yearly and have little job security.
These are aluminum atoms. An atom is the smallest particle of an element that has the properties of that element. Some properties of aluminum are: shiny, silver colored, fragile, and thin. Each element has its own type of properties.
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.