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"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines an element to exist if its lifetime is longer than 10^−14 seconds (0.01 picoseconds, or 10 femtoseconds), which is the time it takes for the nucleus to form an electron cloud." — What does this mean?

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What ecological role to viruses play? Would there be ecological damage if viruses somehow disappeared?

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"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines an element to exist if its lifetime is longer than 10^−14 seconds (0.01 picoseconds, or 10 femtoseconds), which is the time it takes for the nucleus to form an electron cloud." — What does this mean?	3165
What ecological role to viruses play? Would there be ecological damage if viruses somehow disappeared?	1