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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting... by ansgri on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @12:20AM (#4747331)
Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting... by msbarnett on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @03:29AM (#4747651)
Indeed it would be much more accurate to call it a Turtle, since it's Turtles all the way down.

(Under absolutely no circumstances should anyone actually do this)

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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting... by daeken on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @12:22AM (#4747336)
Yeah, it is -- I've never found it to be a particularly great term, but it's what's used.
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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting... by lloeki on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:18AM (#4747521)
Atoms can be linked together to form an arbitrary structure. After all, a tree is a graph.
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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting... by Evbn on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @11:40AM (#4749186)
But once they are linked we call the linkage a molecule or compound.
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