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Atoms are the smallest particles found in ordinary substances. They can usually join together to form molecules. Hydrogen has the smallest atoms, which consist of a single proton with a single electron orbiting around it. The largest atoms have over 100 protons and an even larger number of neutrons in their nuclei.

 

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