Microscopic · #1009 biggest of 1,014
How big is a buckyball (C60)?
700 pm
A buckyball (C60) measures 700 pm. That's about 7 atoms lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 700 pm — down at the scale of individual atoms.
- You'd need about 2.43 billion of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 7 atoms could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #1009 by size.
Size comparison
How buckyball (C60) stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
transistor
3.0 nm
strand of DNA (width)
2.5 nm
strand of DNA (width)
2.5 nm
glucose molecule
1.0 nm
buckyball (C60)
7.0e+2 pm
carbon atom
1.4e+2 pm
hydrogen atom
1.0e+2 pm
helium atom
62 pm
atomic nucleus
0.010 pm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
It's so small that about 1.43 million of them would fit across a single millimeter.
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