Gems · #955 biggest of 1,014

How big is a turquoise bead?

1 cm

A turquoise bead measures 1 cm. That's about 143 human-hair widths lined up end to end.

By the numbers

That's 1 cm, or about 0.394 inches.
You'd need about 170 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
Roughly 143 human-hair widths could line up across it.
Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #955 by size.

How turquoise bead stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.

turquoise bead

1.0 cm

Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!

You could line up roughly 170 of them along the height of an average person.

pearl

8 mm

sapphire ring stone

7 mm

1-carat diamond

6.5 mm

garnet

6 mm

opal

1.5 cm

grain of pyrite

3 mm

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