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Who was the first to state the concept of an atom?

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Democritus was the first to state the concept of an atom; he proposed that matter is made up of tiny, indivisible particles called atoms
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Democritus

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Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus first developed the concept of the atom in the 5th century BC

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