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To initially find the atom, Democritus conducted a simple experiment that can still be done today. What he did was take a simple seashell and break it in half. He then took that half and broke it in half over and over and over and over again until he was finally left with a fine powder.

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To initially find the atom, Democritus conducted a simple experiment that can still be done today. What he did was take a simple seashell and break it in half. He then took that half and broke it in half over and over and over and over again until he was finally left with a fine powder.

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He surprisingly didn't marry anyone, even though he was known and thought of as a genius by all around him. 

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He surprisingly didn't marry anyone, even though he was known and thought of as a genius by all around him. 

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He influenced many new theory's about atomic theory and also argued that matter was subdivided into indivisible and immutable particles that created the appearance of change when they joined and separated from others. Which went against everything the poles of the ancient minds thought. 

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He influenced many new theory's about atomic theory and also argued that matter was subdivided into indivisible and immutable particles that created the appearance of change when they joined and separated from others. Which went against everything the poles of the ancient minds thought. 

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 Leucippus, was his right hand man and was before that his mentor! Which is crazy how you can surpass and demote someone who taught you everything into one of your men. 

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 Leucippus, was his right hand man and was before that his mentor! Which is crazy how you can surpass and demote someone who taught you everything into one of your men. 

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The impact of his experiment, was astronomical. He changed everyone's point of view on everything made up of a certain material. He literally "blew their minds". 

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The impact of his experiment, was astronomical. He changed everyone's point of view on everything made up of a certain material. He literally "blew their minds". 

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Democritus had a thought experiment. The idea was if you took a material and divided it half, you would have a smaller but identical chunk. If you keep dividing your material, there should eventually be a point where you've reached the smallest representative element of your material. That element is the "atom"

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Democritus had a thought experiment. The idea was if you took a material and divided it half, you would have a smaller but identical chunk. If you keep dividing your material, there should eventually be a point where you've reached the smallest representative element of your material. That element is the "atom"

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Democritus was known as the Laughing Philosopher

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Democritus was known as the Laughing Philosopher

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His personal hobbies were his works on atomic theory. 

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His personal hobbies were his works on atomic theory. 

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Backstory on education and growing up: When his father died Democritus took his inheritance and spent it traveling to distant lands, slaking his nearly endless thirst for knowledge. He traveled over much of Asia, studied geometry in Egypt, went to the Red Sea and Persia regions to learn from the Chaldean's, and may have visited Ethiopia.

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Backstory on education and growing up: When his father died Democritus took his inheritance and spent it traveling to distant lands, slaking his nearly endless thirst for knowledge. He traveled over much of Asia, studied geometry in Egypt, went to the Red Sea and Persia regions to learn from the Chaldean's, and may have visited Ethiopia.

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His field of chemistry was atomic theory. He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indivisibly small “atoms.”

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His field of chemistry was atomic theory. He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indivisibly small “atoms.”