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How Small is an Atom?
The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 meter. This video also goes the ...
The nucleus is very small compared to the atom as a whole: as electrons are even smaller, most of an atom is empty space the diameter of a nucleus can be 100,000 times less than the diameter of an ...
As it does so, an electron in a single atom combines with a proton ... making them hundreds of times bigger than a typical atomic nucleus. Such a size increase is possible, the researchers ...