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The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
atom comes from the word atomos ( a= not/ tomos= devisible)
it was called this because it was belived that all matter was made from individual descrete particles so not visible.

MIT lecture on the origin of the atom,

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The word 'atom' means 'uncuttable' or 'smallest indivisible particle of matter

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