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Pretend you have a container of salt and a container of trail mix. How could you physically
separate the sodium and the chlorine from the salt? How could you separate the pieces in the
train mix? _____________________________________________________________
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• Atoms are the _______________ blocks of ______________. An atom is the
____________ unit of an element that maintains the _________ properties of that
element.
o They combine with another to make different _______________________.
• A molecule is ________________ or more atoms that are ____________________
combined.
• Elements are made up of one or more of the same type of
_____________________ that are chemically ____________________.
• Elements can not be broken down into __________________ su