it's about atoms!!! help?

Question

can someone characterize the size of an atom for me!!!PLEASE!!

Answer 1

To give you an idea of the scale,. if the nucleus of an atom was the size of a beach ball on the goal line of a football field (American football), the electrons would be like little peas or large grains of sand. The electron closest to the nucleus would probably be on the twenty yard line, and others would be on the fifty yard line, the opposite goal line, in the sky boixes and out in the parking lots.

The nearest other atom would be about five miles away. and, using gold atoms, 161,316,420,397 atoms would equal approximately 65 meters.

Answer 2

They're really, REALLY small!

Seriously, you can look at a number like Avogadro's number, 6.023 times 10 to the 23rd power.  That's the number of atoms in one "gram molecular weight" of a substance.  For iron, that's about 55.8 grams.

The density of iron is about 7.8 g/cc, so that 55.8 grams of iron takes up about 7.15 cc; alternatively, one cc has 8.42 times 10 to the 22nd power atoms of iron.  Taking the cube root, each atom takes up a volume equal to a cube that's 1/(43,800,000) centimeters on a side.

Repeat the calculations for carbon, I dare ya!  Carbon comes in different forms, so try diamond and graphite just for fun!

Answer 3

what kind of atom. Different atoms have different sizes. The higher the atomic number, the greater the size.

Answer 4

I think it's more along the line that they have too many Antiparticles running around in their heads. Particles such as antithought, antilove, antirationality, stuff like that. BB, Raji the Green Witch

Answer 5

the diameter of an atom is about 0.1 to 0.5 nanometer. it is very small but still, electrons are 200,000 times small than that.