How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.
Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible – how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they...
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Atoms are ridiculous and unbelievably small.A single human hair is about as thick as500,000 carbon atoms stacked over each other.Look at your fist, it contains trillions and trillions of atoms.If one atom in it were about as big as a marble, how big would your fist be?Well… about the size of Earth. Hm… still hard to imagine?Let’s try something differentLook at your little finger.Imagine that its tip is as big as the room you’re sitting in right now.Now fill the room with grains of rice.One rice corn represents one cell of your fingertip.Now let’s zoom in on the rice corn.And now, one cell is as big as the room you’re in right now.Let’s fill it with rice again. This is about the size of a protein.And now, let us fill all the empty spaces between the rice cor...
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Atoms are ridiculous and unbelievably small.A single human hair is about as thick as500,000 carbon atoms stacked over each other.Look at your fist, it contains trillions and trillions of atoms.If one atom in it were about as big as a marble, how big would your fist be?Well… about the size of Earth. Hm… still hard to imagine?Let’s try something differentLook at your little finger.Imagine that its tip is as big as the room you’re sitting in right now.Now fill the room with grains of rice.One rice corn represents one cell of your fingertip.Now let’s zoom in on the rice corn.And now, one cell is as big as the room you’re in right now.Let’s fill it with rice again. This is about the size of a protein.And now, let us fill all the empty spaces between the rice cor...
