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The future of Delton’s Atomic theory that states: atoms are indivisible; they cannot be created or destroyed” is considered valid today A)TrueB) False

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Dalton's atomic model was one of the firsts that tried to define what is an atom and what is its composition, one of the statements was "atoms are indivisible". Nowadays, with modern technology we can see that atoms have subparticles, and can be splitted into protons, neutrons, electrons, and even these subparticles will have smalled fundamental particles inside of it. Therefore this is statement is false

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