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I was always told it was 0.14 nanometres,

But!!! there is alot of debate about it since other factors have to be taken into account e.g. the valance diameter, and ionic diameter. And at the end of the day an atom isn't a solid thing so anything that tells you the atomic radius is just the best representation.

oh, and there's going to be inter-atomic forces and van der walls forces acting there too, so i dunno.

Chemists like to say its around 1-10nm, i don't know why , but its certainly no bigger than 1nm.

But I'm a nano guy not a solids guy, soo.....

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