In the previous part of this series, Atoms & The Periodic Table, I went into how the structure of atoms is related to the construction of the Periodic Table of elements. Some take home points:
- The mass of an atom is highly concentrated in the central nucleus made up of protons and neutrons
- The volume of an atom is determined by the space "swept out" by the essentially massless electrons orbiting the nucleus.
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