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Who coined the term atom?


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Democritus

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Dalton

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Kannada

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Rutherford

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Solution

The correct option is A

Democritus


There was a brilliant philosopher named Democritus (around 400 B.C.), and he proposed the Greek word atomos, which means uncuttable. And so as he explained, all matter was eventually reducible to discrete, small particles or atomos. The word atom arrived from this Greek word.


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