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Mahāvira and His Relevance
of myrobalan (Anwala) distance between Proton and Electron will be about 2 ft. These statistics tend to show that matter is extremely porous and capable of accommodating other infinite number of atoms in this porosity which view has long before been held by the Jain Thinkers, 27 “If we eliminate all the unfilled space in a man's body and collect the nuclei and electrons into one mass, we could be reduced to a speck just visible with a magnifying glass"Eddington. It is the attribute of an atom to contain the same number of electrons as the number of protons.
Fig. 6
ELECTRON
PROTON
HYDROGEN Hydrogen has 1 Proton 1 Electron (Fig. 6)
. Fig. 7
HELIUM Helium-2 Protons 2 Electrons (Fig. 7)
Fig. 8
BERYLLIUM Beryllium-4 Protons 4 Electrons (Fig. 8)
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