How can materials be waterproof or air tight if atoms don’t touch?
In: Physics
They do touch. The people saying that “atoms don’t touch” are missing (or are trying to point out) the fact that “touch” is a poorly defined word on atomic scales. All touching means is that there is a strong repulsion from the electric field of one object on another.
Any other definition doesn’t encompass what is generally understood as touch.
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