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Comment by avz

Indeed. For comparison: atoms are about four orders of magnitude larger than atomic nuclei. The size of the former is generally a few tens to low hundreds of picometers (1 pm = 1e-12 m) while the size of the latter is just a few femtometers (1 fm = 1e-15 m).

See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_nucleus for concrete example sizes.

parent avz 6 years ago

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