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Democritus's ideas were not helpful in explaining chemical behavior because they lacked experimental support.

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It did not explain the behavior of chemicals

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Democritus ideas was only a genial theoretical prediction but not experimentally validated 2 500 years ago.

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Q: What was a shortcoming of democritus's description of the atom?
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