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四元素
Also known as classical elements, four elements (Philosophy)
group of constituent basic elements of matter (water, earth, fire, air and sometimes aether), used to explain nature patterns since ancient times
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Classical elements are a group of basic substances—typically water, earth, fire, and air, and sometimes aether—that ancient civilizations used to explain how the natural world works and why patterns occur in nature. Understanding these elements matters because they shaped early scientific thinking and remain culturally significant across many traditions, even though modern science has replaced them with the periodic table of atoms.
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元素或古典元素（英語：Classical elements），在古典哲學中，是一種構成世界上所有物質的最基本實體，或是能量。在歷史上，許多不同的民族，都曾經建構出屬於他們自己的元素思想，最著名的代表有古希臘的四元素說、或五元素說，印度佛教的四大種（地、水、火、風）以及中國的五行。 在近代化學中，元素特指自然界中一百多种基本的金属和非金属物质，它们只由一种原子组成，其原子中的每一核子具有同样数量的質子，用一般的化学方法不能使元素分解，并且它能构成一切物质。一些常見元素的例子有碳、氫和氧。
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