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To
some Greeks, were smallest “indivisible” unit of matter
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In
1700’s, 1800’s discovery of chemical “elements” (H, He,
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C,
O, N, ...)
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somehow
made of different kinds of atoms
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In
early 1900’s, parts of atoms and reasons the elements
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differ
understood
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In
early to mid 1900’s ways to change one kind of atom into
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understood
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radioactive
decay
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fission
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fusion
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