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On-Yomi: カク

Koohii stories:

1) [richcoop] 26-6-2008(170): The nucleus of an oak TREE is an ACORN.

2) [yorkii] 16-6-2006(160): In the nucleus of the acorn, all the DNA is stored – the building blocks for a new tree.

3) [daredawg3583] 3-6-2008(48): Ernest Rutherford discovered the Nucleus. Picture him sitting under a tree pondering atoms, after an ACORN falls on him he suddenly understands that each atom has a nucleus.

4) [Ricardo] 28-3-2007(28): [nucleus; core; kernel] Right in the nucleus of the acorn, you can find a future tree.

5) [atylmo] 4-3-2009(18): Imagine the tree as the nucleus, and the acorn as the electrons rotating out around it. It's a forest of nuclei!

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