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What Are Atoms?
Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Unlike blocks that we know, these building blocks are incredibly small.
In fact, they are the smallest particles of an element.
Atoms still have the same properties as the elements they make up.
Elements are also pure substances.
This means they are not mixed with anything else.
Pure substances such as nickel, hydrogen, and helium make up all kinds of matter.
All the atoms of a given element are identical.
Atoms of different elements are not physically the same.
Think of something you might have made from LEGOs.
You built some shape using the many different sized and shaped blocks.
This is much like how atoms combine to become everything we know.
If we took only one size and shape of block and put them together, we would make a pure substance.
It would be an element. If you take apart anything that you have built, those individual parts are like the atoms.
With those small parts, you build bigger things.
Sometimes they are all the same type of block.
Other times, they may be different kinds of blocks.
We use these combinations of different blocks to make more complicated things.