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Democritus was an early Greek philosopher who first proposed the idea of atoms in the 5th century BC. He theorized that all matter is made up of tiny indivisible particles called atoms that come in different shapes and sizes and are in constant motion. This atomic theory was rejected by Aristotle and ignored for nearly 2000 years. In the late 1700s, early chemists like Priestley, Lavoisier, and Dalton began developing theories to explain chemical phenomena based on atoms. Dalton

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Marvin Rosel

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