Explain the relationship of mass and volume in the atom. Where is all the mass? Where is most of the volume?
Please help, my teacher hasn't talked about volume at all yet.
Please help, my teacher hasn't talked about volume at all yet.
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Most of the mass is in the nucleus of the atom (composed of protons and neutrons). It is also by far the densest part of the atom.
Most of the volume, however, is in the electron cloud of the atom.
Most of the volume, however, is in the electron cloud of the atom.