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If a molecule is made of only one type of atom, then it is a pure element in molecular form. For example, hydrogen gas, as it was used in balloons before the Hindenburg caught fire, is a pure element. That gas consists of hydrogen molecules - H2. Hydrogen gas nearly always forms two-atom molecules and is still a pure element.

The Oxygen in the air is a pure element but it also is only found as two-atom gas-molecules - O2.

The well-known Buckyballs which are large molecules of carbon are nothing but carbon and therefore are molecules of one element - pure carbon.

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