| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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Again in this picture darkness of tone denotes the probability that an electron
will be found in a certain place. As the sodium atom is here drawn at a 10
times larger scale, the area depicted in it is only 1/100th that of #-8. The
probability that an electron will be found there will be that much smaller and
the shading in consequence is made lighter. The same holds for the hydrogen
atom in the inset. The nucleus of the sodium atom is in the center. Its size on
this scale is only 7 microns. Twelve electrons are whirling around this nucleus at
speeds of about 1,000 kilometers per second in reality, or a thousand million
times more on this imagined magnified image. The sinusoid drawn shows the
wave length of the finest X-rays on this scale. In the inset a quarter of a hydrogen
atom is visible.
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