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A body consisting of a homogeneous substance can be very extensively divided and subdivided without a limit of divisibility being reached and without any change in its general physical or chemical properties. The first limit of divisibility is reached only when the body has been resolved into its separate molecules: to subdivide these further, recourse must be had to other means — physical or chemical — and any such further division would fundamentally change all the characteristics of the substance.
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Westphal, W.H. (1968). Mechanics of Substances. In: A Short Textbook of Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85476-7_3
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