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ansgri
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Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
msbarnett
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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)
daeken
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Yeah, it is -- I've never found it to be a particularly great term, but it's what's used.
lloeki
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Atoms can be linked together to form an arbitrary structure. After all, a tree is a graph.
Evbn
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But once they are linked we call the linkage a molecule or compound.
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