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| | Atom Article, Atom Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The word atom is derived from the Greek atomos, indivisible, from a-, not, and tomos, a cut. |
 | | Till the 19th century many people believed atoms to be tiny hard spheres, like minute billiard balls. |
 | | They thought they had no internal parts and could not be created, divided or destroyed. |
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