• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    6 hours ago

    The energy from nuclear reactions can be astonishingly large (compared to, say, chemical reactions).

    But atoms are really, really, really small.

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      4 hours ago

      people with good vision can probably see a single gold atom, I seem to remember that one useless fact about the smallest things we can see

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        3 hours ago

        Nope. Atoms are WAY too small to see, even with the most powerful optical microscopes.

        You may be thinking of a human egg cell, which can be seen with the naked eye.