If we’re made entirely of atoms and atoms never touch how do we feel different textures/fabrics

Question

If we’re made entirely of atoms and atoms never touch how do we feel different textures/fabrics

In: Physics

Answer 1

You are feeling the structures of the atoms like you touch steel you feel it’s hard and your feeling the crystalline structure and if you touch you shirt your feeling the soft composition of whatever makes up the fabric of your shirt. back to steel take a carbon steel for example you have your iron atoms that compose most of it but when you add carbon it tends to adhere itself in between the iron atoms to the make it harder also any of you knowing more than me please correct me