The idea of the atom as the building block of matter has developed over time. What was thought of as a single particle about 1 × 10‾¹⁰ m across is now known to be a collection of smaller particles.
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 ...
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