What are everyday things made of, like wood, metal, and plastic?
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What are everyday things made of, like wood, metal, and plastic?
Look around the room. The wooden chair, the metal spoon, the plastic cup — they all feel completely different. But here's the secret nobody whispers: every single one of them is made of the same tiny building blocks. The trick is just how those blocks are arranged.
Those building blocks are called atoms. Atoms are unimaginably small — millions could line up across the width of a single hair. There are only about a hundred different kinds, and absolutely everything you've ever touched is some mix of them, stacked like the world's tiniest Lego bricks.
