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How Big Are Things?
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micro
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meter
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kilo
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Mega
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Giga
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Tera
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Peta
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| picometer's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper |
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look at the entire room |
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| galaxy | 21 | |
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| 20 19 | ||
| local stars | 18 | |
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| 17 16 | ||
| between | 15 | |
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| 14 13 | ||
| E's orbit | 12 | |
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| 11 10 | ||
| sun | 9 | |
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| 8 7 | ||
| texas | 6 | |
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| 5 4 | ||
| hood | 3 | |
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| 2 1 | ||
| you | 0 | |
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| salt grain | -3 | |
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| bacteria | -6 | |
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| atom | -9 |
1 pm 10 pm 100 pm
1 Angstrom
Bond lengths:
C-H
C-C
C=C
C=C
C-O
C=O
C=O
C-N
C=N
C=N
H van-der-Waals diameter
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