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Grade 12th pass9 grade science

Size of the nucleus of an atom is _______ as compared to the size of the atom .

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4 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Yash Patari
4 Years ago
Dear student
The diameter of a nucleus is about 2 × 10 -15 m and the diameter of an atom is 1 × 10 -10 m. What size would the atom be in a model where the Earth represented the nucleus? The diameter of the Earth is 1.3 × 10 7 m. Therefore the atom is 5 × 10 4 larger than the nucleus.
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