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If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.
Francis William Aston
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Francis William Aston
Age: 68 †
Born: 1877
Born: September 1
Died: 1945
Died: November 20
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Birmingham
West Midlands
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