Matter that is made of only one kind of atom is an element, like helium. Helium likes to hang out in groups of two helium atoms.
An atom is the smallest particle of an element that still has its chemical properties. If you have a gold atom and you split it into smaller parts (which you can do), it won’t still act like it did chemically as it did when it was a whole atom.
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