A grain of sand is just that, a grain of sand.
Two gains of sand are two grains of sand.
If you add more and more sand, at some point you can say you have a pile of sand, and you can describe it with new properties.
Atoms are basically the same, you need a bunch of them and then you can describe them with new properties such as viscosity, state of matter and so on.
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A grain of sand is just that, a grain of sand. Two gains of sand are two grains of sand.
If you add more and more sand, at some point you can say you have a pile of sand, and you can describe it with new properties.
Atoms are basically the same, you need a bunch of them and then you can describe them with new properties such as viscosity, state of matter and so on.