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Who first used the word “atomos”
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Who first used the word “atomos”

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The Greek philosopher Leucippus of Miletus and his student Democritus of Abdera in the 5th century B.C. (The word atom comes from the Greek word atomos, which means “indivisible”)
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the answer you are looking for is Democritus
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