>>1187490There is nothing contradictory about hydrogen being an element, and atom, and there being hydrogen molecules, molecules made up exclusively out of hydrogen atoms, also referred to as an element, a pure substance made out of only one type of atom.
>The term "element" is used for atoms with a given number of protons (regardless of whether or not they are ionized or chemically bonded, e.g. hydrogen in water) as well as for a pure chemical substance consisting of a single element (e.g. hydrogen gas).>>1187682Apparently he didn't
