| _______________ | The result of two or more atoms combining by chemical bonding. |
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The tiniest particle of an element that retains the chemical properties of that element; i.e. if you divided a bar of gold into smaller and smaller pieces, the smallest piece that would still act like gold would be an __________ of gold. Further divisions of this particle would yield protons and neutrons, not gold. |
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Substances that when in pure form are made up of only one kind of atom. There are approximately 103 of these substances know to science. |