• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    people with good vision can probably see a single gold atom, I seem to remember that one useless fact about the smallest things we can see

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      5 months ago

      Nope. Atoms are WAY too small to see, even with the most powerful optical microscopes.

      You may be thinking of a human egg cell, which can be seen with the naked eye.