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Can a piece of copper be broken down into some simpler type of matter?
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∙ 11y ago
Not chemically. The molecules of an element contain only one form of atom, although these can have different numbers of neutrons.
The copper can be fissioned into other elements or considered as its separate subatomic particles, but this cannot be done physically to the copper piece.
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