And even though pilots flying for large American airlines earn good pay, most such aviators don't work for the big carriers. The majority of commercial airline pilots fly for small regional carriers, earn starting pay around $20,000 yearly and have little job security.
These are aluminum atoms. An atom is the smallest particle of an element that has the properties of that element. Some properties of aluminum are: shiny, silver colored, fragile, and thin. Each element has its own type of properties.
The atom with the smallest mass is the hydrogen atom; its mass is about 10-27 kg. The masses of other atoms go up to about 200 times this. The nucleus of an atom is about 10-15 m in size; this means it is about 10-5 (or 1/100,000) of the size of the whole atom. A good comparison of the nucleus to the atom is like a pea in the middle of a racetrack. (10-15 m is typical for the smaller nuclei; larger ones go up to about 10 times that.) Mass : Although it is very small, the nucleus is massive compared to the rest of the atom. Typically the nucleus contains more than 99.9% of the mass of the atom.