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Indeed. For comparison: atoms are about four orders of magnitude larger than atomic nuclei. The size of the former is generally a few tens to low hundreds of picometers (1 pm = 1e-12 m) while the size of the latter is just a few femtometers (1 fm = 1e-15 m).

See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_nucleus for concrete example sizes.



People have used electron diffraction using cryo-em scopes to do sub-angstrom resolution. For example, my colleague Jose Rodridguez published this a few years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-017-0018-0


See also neutron diffraction- it's been used for decades to get fine structure info.


It’s 7 orders for the protium isotope of hydrogen:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=diameter+of+hydrogen+a...

One reason hydrogen is so hard to see...




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