Most atoms happen to be about 1 Angstrom or 10−8 cm in radius, and typical nuclei are about 10−13 cm in radius (actually, larger nuclei are somewhat larger, but we will ignore this complication). Suppose we expanded a typical atomic nucleus to be the size of a marble (1 centimeter). How large would the atom itself be? What object/thing has about this same size?

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