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What is a chemical element?

What is a chemical element? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction. Chemical elements consist of atoms which have the same number of protons.
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A metallic chemical element with a high resistance to atmospheric corrosion.
My project dealt with different crystalline forms of the chemical element selenium.
Today, the name phosphorus is used for the chemical element only, whereas certain microcrystalline luminescent materials are called phosphors.
It was not until 1807, however, that Sir Humphrey Davy identified boron as a chemical element.
Plasma is a special state of a very hot chemical element whose atoms are completely stripped of their electrons.
Isotopes of a chemical element are atoms having the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus.

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