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It is well-known that if we pass from a UFD to a new ring where we have factored one of the primes, it does not need to stay a UFD. The classic example is passing from $\mathbb{Z}$ to $\mathbb{Z}[\...

In Proposition 1.1 of [Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 64 (1968), No. 2, 251-264], P.M. Cohn famously claimed (without proof) that a commutative domain is atomic if and only if it satisfies the ...