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Who first thought of atoms?

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Around 2,500 years ago this Greek dude name Democritus was sitting around just thinking. He was thinking about cutting stuff up and came up with the idea that there must be a point where you could no longer cut something any smaller. He named the atom after the Greek word atomos, which means that which can't be split. The cool part is that he was right, well 90% right.

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In Ancient Greece, it was debated whether or not matter could be endlessly divided. It is believed that Leucippus of Miletus and his pupil Democritus of Abdera, at around about 450 B.C., argued that matter would be found, in the end, to consist of indivisible particles. Democritus named these particles atoms (meaning non-divisible). He went on to make some further suggestions about atoms, and his intuition was indeed correct.

However, it was not until the 19th/20th century A.D. that the existence of atoms was finally proven when Brownianmotion was first discovered and investigated.

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Democrities in the VERY early ages. He was experiementing and though that there was a particle that could not be broken down further, he called this atomos or atom

Acatually, Democrities was not the first person to disover the atom. Thales, who lived about 150 years before Democrities, discovered the atom. He said that all matter was made of water. Later, Anaximander refined this theory and came up with a crude verson of modern thermodynamics. Democrities, later, refined these theroies again and called them atoms.

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A Greek scientist named Democritus, first suggested the idea of an atom.

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A person by the name of Democritus, who lived in ancient greece.

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the idea of the atom was first devised by Greek philosopher Democritus.

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JOHN DALTON

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