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 In LAMMPS, body particles are generalized finite-size particles.
 Individual body particles can represent complex entities, such as
 surface meshes of discrete points, collections of sub-particles,
-deformable objects, etc.  Note that other kinds of finite-size
-spherical and aspherical particles are also supported by LAMMPS, such
-as spheres, ellipsoids, line segments, and triangles, but they are
-simpler entities that body particles.  See the :doc:`Howto spherical <Howto_spherical>` doc page for a general overview of all
-these particle types.
+deformable objects, etc.  Note that other kinds of finite-size spherical
+and aspherical particles are also supported by LAMMPS, such as spheres,
+ellipsoids, line segments, and triangles, but they are simpler entities
+than body particles.  See the :doc:`Howto spherical <Howto_spherical>`
+doc page for a general overview of all these particle types.
 
 Body particles are used via the :doc:`atom_style body <atom_style>`
 command.  It takes a body style as an argument.  The current body