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Let us see what an atom, molecule and element is!
 
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Atoms make up everything you can see, touch, smell, feel, and taste.
 
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Atoms are the essential building blocks of all matter (including you and anyone else you will ever meet). So, let us learn a few things about these extraordinarily tiny particles if we want to understand more on this topic.

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Everything you have ever seen is made up of atoms or atoms stuck together in complex configurations.
 
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A chemical element is a material that cannot be broken down into simpler forms using traditional chemical methods.

Molecules of compounds contain atoms from two or more separate elements. For example, Ethane \(C_2H_6\) has eight atoms, two of carbon \(C\) and six of hydrogen.
 
An atom is the smallest unit of a chemical element. They are incredibly smaller than anything we can compare them to or imagine.
 
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