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One atom must be one and only one element (radioactivity allows an atom to change from one element into another, but it can still only be one element at a time). One element can have any number of atoms, though certain combinations are common: all of the elements that are gases at room temperature (that aren't noble gases) exist as diatomic molecules.

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