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Scientific Notation
ON A PIN
Standard Notation
(meters)
Head of a pin
2mm (millimeters) in diameter
Dust mites
420 µm (micrometers) in length
0.00042
Human hair
80 µm in width
0.00008
Ragweed
pollen
24 µm
Lymphocyte
11 µm
Baker’s yeast
4 µm
0.000004
E. Coli
bacterium
0.6 µm in width
0.0000006
Ebola virus
115 nm (nanometers)
Rhinovirus
30 nm
CELL SIZE AND SCALE
Standard
(meters)
Coffee bean
12 mm (millimeters) in length
0.012
Grain of salt
0.5 mm
0.0005
Human egg
130 µm (micrometers)
Skin cell
30 µm
Red blood cell
8 µm
Lysosome
1 µm
Measles virus
220 nm
0.00000022
Influenza virus
130 nm (nanometers)
0.00000013
Hepatitis virus
45 nm
0.000000045
Antibody
12 nm
Glucose
molecule
0.9 nm
Carbon Atom
340 pm (picometers)
0.000008
0.00000000034
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Scientific Notation
(meters)
Scientific Notation
(meters)