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I suppose it depends on what you define as breaking (assuming you are talking about chemical elements).
If you have a single piece of elemental iron in solid form, you can break it into two pieces of elemental iron, although it is still an element.
At one time, an atom was considered to be the smallest part of an element and could not be changed. However, that is only partly true.
With radioactive decay, one element can be transformed into another.
For example, Uranium 238 can undergo alpha decay and essentially be broken into Thorium 234 and a Helium ion.
Particle Accelerators can be used to "smash atoms" that otherwise wouldn't spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.
There are a number of subatomic particles including protons, electrons, and neutrons, but also additional smaller constituent particles of each of those.
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