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all of the 117 known elements (as of 2008) are in the "Periodic Table" of elements. If the name (or Latin abbreviation) of the substance is listed there, it is an element. Plato is one of the people credited with examining whether things could be reduced to the smallest particles that retained its properties (it took me many years to figure that one out). A table with the common names (instead of the Latin abbreviations) is in one of the links below.

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