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What is the smallest particle?

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The smallest particle of an element is an atom.
"All the matter is formed of atoms, and atoms are indivisible and indestructible," according to Dalton's Atomic Theory.
Atom has a central nucleus that is surrounded by one or more electrons.
Here some examples of atoms are Neon, Argon, Iron, Calcium etc
The figure shows the atom:

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