The experts agree with the old saying that you should never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

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One of the main difference is is that when you're talking about multi-electron orbitals, they're actually smaller than the corresponding orbital for the hydrogen atom.

其中最主要的区别之一,是当你讨论多电子轨道时,它们实际上，要比对应的氢原子轨道,要小一些。

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And this is just a picture showing some of these sizes with their parent. So, for example, a lithium here, you can see how lithium plus is smaller than the actual lithium atom in its neutral state.

这是一张对比图,展示某些离子与它们的母体，比如，这里是锂，大家可以看到正一价锂离子是多么的小,与中性锂原子相比。

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The grains in the orange side you're supposed to be eating more of those than what might be a smaller slice of the pie here, or the triangle.

相比在这个图中用小块表示的食物种类,用橘黄色表示的谷物类食物是你该多吃的

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So, for example, if we think of the fluorine minus case, would you expect fluorine minus to be larger or smaller than neutral fluorine? Okay. I heard mostly larger, but a little bit of a mix in there, and it turns out that larger is correct.

比如，如果我们来考虑一下负一价的氟离子的话，大家认为它大一些还是小一些？,对比于比中性氟原子，好的，我听到大部分人说大一些，但是也有一些不同意见，而正确答案应该是大一些。

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