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How to identify small molecules in a structure without bonds

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If I have an XYZ file with a cluster of a dozen of molecules: water, $\ce{O2}$, $\ce{H2}$, $\ce{H2O2}$. A human may easily identify these molecules. But how to do it automatically? I need to identify let's say all water and $\ce{H2}$ molecules, and I know nothing about other molecules ($\ce{O2}$, $\ce{H2O2}$). Generally speaking, I need to recognize a few known small molecules in arbitrary systems of medium size (hundreds of atoms). These systems may contain unknown molecules, or even bulk materials.Please recommend me some solution for that task. I would be happy to find either some existing software (like Python package), or some not-too-complex algorithm that I could implement myself.

Here is an exemplar structure in XYZ format:

20O     -1.47655    1.21497   -0.20250H     -0.53716    1.39872   -0.20387H     -1.84821    1.86921    0.38917O     -1.20797   -1.49263   -0.10100H     -1.40154   -0.55535   -0.11741H     -1.71280   -1.85472   -0.82920O      1.45295   -1.19622    0.39415H      0.53738   -1.39890    0.20209H      1.65598   -1.71658    1.17148O      1.23158    1.47389   -0.09064H      1.40132    0.55553    0.11919H      1.90503    1.70209   -0.73144O     -0.76633    3.57210   -0.37181O      0.15413    3.64478   -0.39400O      2.01459    3.79209   -0.43890O      3.44119    3.98651   -0.48207H      3.86223    3.37474    0.11035H      1.59355    4.40386   -1.03132H     -4.39535    2.45856   -0.19546H     -4.82240    2.33535   -0.65595

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