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plural atomists
An adherent of atomism; one who believes matter is composed of elementary indivisible particles. quotations examples
What distinguished the atomists from their opponents was not the belief in tiny particles that make up matter, but the question of what separated them.
2002, Phillip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 9
An adherent of the atomic theory. examples