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What is matter made of? To find out, we might try breaking any material object into increasingly smaller pieces until we reach a stage when the smallest piece cannot be broken apart. The last step in this imaginary, successive division of matter suggests the existence of unseen atoms, a Greek word meaning “indivisible,” or something that cannot be divided further.
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Lang, K. (2013). Moving Particles. In: Essential Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35963-7_5
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