Atoms

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This was a fun video during Covid homeschooling I found for the kids.

Helped explain the fun fact that humans are made of some crystals.

Wow! I had no idea that the idea of an Atom goes back 2000+ years. Thanks for sharing this terrific post.

Goes to show how these tiny, simple things come together with some structure to create everything in our universe.

Elementary particles like electrons are atoms in the original (Democrits) sense. Modern "atoms" were so-called because they were originally thought to be elementary.

are electrons made out of... electron? surely electrons are made out of electron-stuff. If they are not composed of any sort of thing, then they don't sound like any of the things in real life which we can say, up until electrons, are composed of something more minute. If "materially" it's not turtles all the way down I wonder what that means.

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