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emol1414
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This is a silly doubt i guess...
When you know an atom's radius you can easily determine its volume by considering it's a sphere.
But when you're dealing with solids, that is, a set of atoms... and then you have bands insted of orbitals... this differente configuration, the rearrengement... would drastically alterate this estimative of the volume?
I read that the "minimum" number of atoms to form a so-named "solid" is about 10^20, so I was wondering what volume would this number correspond to.
Homework Statement
When you know an atom's radius you can easily determine its volume by considering it's a sphere.
But when you're dealing with solids, that is, a set of atoms... and then you have bands insted of orbitals... this differente configuration, the rearrengement... would drastically alterate this estimative of the volume?
I read that the "minimum" number of atoms to form a so-named "solid" is about 10^20, so I was wondering what volume would this number correspond to.