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The concept that matter is made up of minute individual entities originated with the philosophers of ancient Greece, but the idea did not gain general acceptance until it was put on a quantitative basis by the growth of modern science in the 19th century. In particular, the British chemist John Dalton, in 1808, explained the known laws of chemical combination on the assumption that any given element is composed of identical atoms, which differ from the atoms of any other element. Chemical compounds are then formed by the combination of one or more atoms of one element with atoms of another; for example, the combination of one atom of carbon with two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide.
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Cameron, I.R. (1982). Basic Physics of the Atom and the Nucleus. In: Nuclear Fission Reactors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3527-6_1
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