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Nanoparticle size comparison

Diagram to help visualise how small a nanoparticle via comparisn

It is hard to grasp just how small a nanoparticle is. So imagine if a nanoparticle was the size of a football – this image shows how atoms, cells and organisms would compare at a more familiar scale.

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