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How big is viruses?

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It varies but a paper written by Larry Blockestahler says: The bromegrass mosaic virus has a particularly low molecular weight and nucleic acid content. A molecular weight of 4.6 × 106 was calculated from the sedimentation coefficient, S°20,w = 86.2S, the diffusion coefficient, D20,w = 1.55 × 10-7 cm2/sec., and an assumed partial specific volume, [UNK] = 0.708 ml/gm. The virus has a ribonucleic acid content of 1.0 × 106 Atomic Mass units

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About 10 femtograms, according to scientists who have created tiny weighing scales that can detect the mass of a single virus particle1. That's about one trillionth as much as a grain of rice, says lead researcher Rashid Bashir of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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roughly around 200 nanometers, but size can vary.

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Hepatitis is so small that if you compared it with the needle its on the needle would be about 80 miles high.It's not coming off the needle easy and the naked eye surely can't see it.

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The bromegrass mosaic virus has a A molecular weight of 4.6 × 106 atomic mass units

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10 to 300 nm

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they are microscopic

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