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Molecules. Examples are CO2 (two atoms of oxygen and one of carbon, which you exhale with each breath--in addition to lots of inert diatomic nitrogen gas), and H2O, which is a combination of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Another fun molecule is sodium chloride, NaCl, otherwise known as common table salt. Then, of course, there is the ever popular C2H5OH, a hydrocarbon chain with a hydroxyl attached at one end.

One of the most amazing molecules is deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA for short. Hundreds of thousands of atoms align in long spiral chains, twisted together in a strand called a double helix, to form the molecule essential for life on earth.

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