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Is an electron bigger then an atom?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

No. An electron as a particle is small however the probability cloud of an electron can be large- most of the volume of an atom consists of the electron cloud. In relation to this the nucleus, although it contains nearly all of the mass of the atom, is quite small.

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