Considering how small and far apart the nucleus and electrons are in an atom why cant' we see through most all material?

I can see why you thought I got confused between salt being used as a lense in a telescope and the telescope project called 'SALT', but no, I mean carefully grown salt crystals ARE used as lenses in many things. (see link)It still may be a case of a lattice around amorphous molecules, though, as is the case with crystalline glass. So I need more research.

Perspective 54 months ago http://books.google.com/books?id=ciEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=a+salt+crystalline+lense&source=bl&ots=jZgC4jWSRd&sig=gATo6tWDrvsmy0T_GSZdrv9lIiQ&hl=en&ei=ffW0TaudBYHu0gHPwMn3DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false.

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