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... atom ' as the name for the basic things - invisibly small unchangeable and unchanging little lumps of something which ... atoms of iron , carbon , oxygen , sodium and the rest , with which the chemist deals , will not change in their ...
... atom ' as the name for the basic things - invisibly small unchangeable and unchanging little lumps of something which ... atoms of iron , carbon , oxygen , sodium and the rest , with which the chemist deals , will not change in their ...
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... atoms , or feelings such as anger , or social notions such as justice . Man tends to accept these notions as being ... Atoms are real . ' Okay , but what sort of atoms ? All we know about them is what we have so far succeeded - in ...
... atoms , or feelings such as anger , or social notions such as justice . Man tends to accept these notions as being ... Atoms are real . ' Okay , but what sort of atoms ? All we know about them is what we have so far succeeded - in ...
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... atom of iron may be combined with two other atoms , or with three other atoms or conceivably four , five or six or some other integral number ; but such relations do not involve numbers like 10 · 5763 or 21 · 0274 . When a chemist , for ...
... atom of iron may be combined with two other atoms , or with three other atoms or conceivably four , five or six or some other integral number ; but such relations do not involve numbers like 10 · 5763 or 21 · 0274 . When a chemist , for ...
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