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Democritus believed that atoms were uniform, solid, hard, incompressible, and indestructible and that they moved in infinite numbers through empty space until stopped. Differences in atomic shape and size determined the various properties of matter.

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Greek Model Democritus • Greek philosopher • Idea of ‘democracy’ • Idea of ‘atomos’ – Atomos = ‘indivisible’ – ‘Atom’ is derived • No experiments to support idea Democritus’s model of atom No protons, electrons, or neutrons Solid and INDESTRUCTABLE