More powerful particle accelerators atom smashers, they used to call them have allowed physicists to learn ever more about the sub-atomic particles that are the basic building blocks of all matter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

And what we've been talking about with all of these properties are, of course, how can we figure out what that is for a certain atom by looking at the periodic table, so we want to think about the periodic trend for atomic radius.

对于我们讲过的这些性质，我们所讨论的一直都是,当然是，我们如何能够判断某一个原子的这些性质,通过观察周期表，因此我们需要思考一下原子半径的周期性规律。

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The number of electrons in an atom is deduced to be approximately equal to half the atomic weight.

原子中的电子数,将近是原子质量的一般。

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So similarly, as we now move up only one more atom in the table, 3 so to an atomic number of three or lithium, now we're going from six variables all the way to nine variables.

类似地就像我们现在,移动到周期表中仅仅多一个电子的情况，移动到一个原子数为，或者锂元素,现在我们从6个变量到了9个变量。

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I mean, the atom has a tiny mass, too, but what we are saying is compared to the totaled atomic mass, the mass of the electron is tiny.

我的意思是，原子的质量也很小，但是我们说的是,和整个原子质量相比，电子的质量是很小的。

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