An atom is the smallest particle of a chemical element.
The chemical elements composing the natural food of ordinary crops are ten in number, viz.—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and iron.
The physical world is regarded as being composed of between sixty and seventy chemical elements, aggregated into an infinite variety of combinations.
The reactions between two chemical elements under the same conditions are always the same.
These nutritive compositions contain only such chemical elements in like chemical proportions as exist in the human body.
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Since actual observed vesicle fillings are silicate minerals,chemicalelementtransfers from basalt to geodes must have taken place.
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Before spectra of oxygen ions became known, these lines once led to a spurious identification of the substance as a newchemicalelement.
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The laboratory was honored in 2012 by having the syntheticchemicalelementlivermorium named after it.
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Server names may be named by their role or follow a common theme such as colors, countries, cities, planets,chemicalelement, scientists, etc.
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In geochemistry, a trace element is achemicalelementwhose concentration is less than 1000 ppm or 0.1% of a rock's composition.
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S from the gas, but did not extract the sulfur as achemicalelement.
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Mostchemicalelementthat enter into the dietary physiology of organisms are in the form of simple compounds.
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The segmented tables permit easier examination of a particularchemicalelementwith much less scrolling.
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Each point plotted on the graph thus represents the nuclide of a real or hypotheticalchemicalelement.
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A helium atom is an atom of thechemicalelementhelium.
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Each type of atom corresponds to a specificchemicalelement.
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The second sentence, a use example, is a statement about thechemicalelementcopper and not the word itself.
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Indeed, the nuclear reactions in stars produce every naturally occurringchemicalelement.
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Put another way, achemicalelementcan not be transformed into other chemical elements by chemical processes.
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Sodium bromide can be used as a source of thechemicalelementbromine.
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