I can help with this one! Atoms are estimated to be between 0.1 and 0.5 nanometres in diameter. The average bacterium is estimated to be between 200 and 2,000 nanometres in diameter. This means that an average bacterium might be anywhere from about 400 to as many as 20,000 atoms in diameter!
(Of course, that’s just the diameter. Some scientists have tried to estimate the number of atoms in a whole bacterium, and the number ranges from billions up to possibly quadrillions!)
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I can help with this one! Atoms are estimated to be between 0.1 and 0.5 nanometres in diameter. The average bacterium is estimated to be between 200 and 2,000 nanometres in diameter. This means that an average bacterium might be anywhere from about 400 to as many as 20,000 atoms in diameter!
(Of course, that’s just the diameter. Some scientists have tried to estimate the number of atoms in a whole bacterium, and the number ranges from billions up to possibly quadrillions!)