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    Jeroen Neyns
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    When the size of the nucleus is smaller in proportion to the typical distance in the electron cloud the quadrupole term gives a better approximation.
    Looking at the vertical axis you can conclude that the quadrupole moment is smaller as the size of the nucleus becomes smaller.

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