How small is small – check this out – amazing!

Sometimes I am just amazed at some things. Do you want to know how small a carbon atom is against a coffee bean.

The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.


Click here or the image above to be amazed.

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