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Dave 126 Silver badge

Re: atomistic scale?

Atomistic refers to things being composed of other indivisible things, or being broken into groups. Ie, "an atomistic media landscape'.

For describing something as being of the size of atoms, the phrase 'atomic scale ' is more appropriate.

Atom means indivisible, but whoever borrowed the term from the Greeks did so before modern nuclear physics.

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