Just How

Small
Is an Atom?
 What Makes Up an Atom?

+ -
Proton Nutron Electron
- Positive charge - No charges - Negative charge
- The number of - Accompanied with - Circles on paths on the
protons in an atom protons outer layer of the atom
is equal to the
atomic number of - Binding energy that - Interacts with other
the element. holds the nucleus electrons on other
together atoms (eg. ionic &
covalent bonds)
So, Tomatoes…
There are:

- 8,0000000000 (8 × 1010, or, 80 billion) cells in a

tomato (Answers.com, n.d.)
- 100,000,000,000,000 (1 × 1014, or ,100 trillion )
atoms in a cell (CK-12, n.d.)
- So that’s: 1 × x 1014 × 8 x 1010
24
= 8 x 10 atoms in one tomato!!
Now imagine each atom
as the size of a peanut.

Image: iStock
That’s 8 x 1024 peanuts!!
Fun fact:

You could potentially make about 1.48 x

10^22 jars of peanut butter from 8 x 10^24

peanuts, which can fill approximately

2.6848 x 10^12 Olympic-sized

swimming pools
Each peanut is
about 5.17 cm3

8.00 x 1024 peanuts x

5.17
= 4.14 x 1025 cm3
 8.00 x 1024 peanuts x
5.17
= 4.14 x 1025 cm3

That’s 25,000
times of the
Amazon rainforest!
(1.65 x 1021 cm3)
Now imagine each atom
as the size of a grain of
rice.

Image: iStock
That’s 8 x 1024 grains of
rice!!
Each grains of rice is
about 0.03 cm3

8.00 x 1024 grains of rice x

0.03 cm3
= 2.4 x 1024 cm3
("OpenAI Chat," n.d.)
 8.00 x 1024 grains of rice x
0.03 cm3
= 2.4 x 1024 cm3
("OpenAI Chat," n.d.)

Even bigger than the moon!

10
(volume of the moon: 2.1958×10
km³= 2.1958×1022cm³)
 Citations
Answers.com. (n.d.). How many cells are in a tomato?
https://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_cells_are_in_a_tomato

CK-12. (n.d.). How many atoms of blood is in a human?

https://www.ck12.org/flexi/life-science/blood/how-many-atoms-of-blood-is-in-a-human/

OpenAI. (n.d.). OpenAI Chat. Retrieved Oct 1 2023, from https://chat.openai.com/

Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). Moon. In Wikipedia. Retrieved Oct 1 2023, from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

A human losing weight is like an atom losing electrons

Everything is positive after that.
– an ICONIC pun joke