Why were atoms, as opposed to bare nuclei, unable to exist until hundreds of thousands of years

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Why were atoms, as opposed to bare nuclei, unable to exist until hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang?
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University Physics With Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0073513881

2nd edition

Authors: Wolfgang Bauer, Gary Westfall

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