Further, the nucleus is assumed to be the seat of the essential part of the mass of the atom, and to have linear dimensions exceedingly small compared with the linear dimensions of the whole atom."

进一步的，核被认为是,原子主要质量所在的地方，和整个原子线性尺度相比,核具有很好的线性尺度“

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