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$" C l "$ represents chlorine atom, $" C l_{2} "$ represents chlorine molecule.
List out any two differences between atoms and molecules.

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Solution

An atom is the basic unit of matter. It contains only a single entity of the element like $C l$ .
A molecule is formed by a combination of atoms. It contains one or more atoms of the same or different elements like $C l_{2}$ .
Other examples of molecules are $H_{2} O, H C l, N_{2}$ etc.

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