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How Big Are Things?
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small | Real world |
big | solar system | between | galaxy | ||||||||||||||||||||
nano |
micro |
meter |
kilo |
Mega |
Giga |
Tera |
Peta |
Exa |
picometer's Room - looking at the entire room |
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look at a sheet of graph paper |
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galaxy | 21 | |
20 19 | ||
local stars | 18 | |
17 16 | ||
between | 15 | |
14 13 | ||
E's orbit | 12 | |
11 10 | ||
sun | 9 | |
8 7 | ||
texas | 6 | |
5 4 | ||
hood | 3 | |
2 1 | ||
you | 0 | |
-1 -2 | ||
salt grain | -3 | |
-4 -5 | ||
bacteria | -6 | |
-7 -8 | ||
atom | -9 |
Van-der-Waals diameters:
H
O
Cl
metallic diameters
Li | ||||||
Na | ||||||
K | Ca | Sc | Ti | V | . . . | Cu |
Rb | ||||||
Cs |
Effect of ionization:
Metals
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Non-Metals
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Most sizes are from Tabor's "Gasses, liquids, and solids".
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