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Letter: Most bacteria aren't as large as that

Published 23 January 2019

From Guy Cox, St Albans,<br/>New South Wales, Australia

Leah Crane describes a Bose-Einstein condensate of caesium atoms 26 micrometres across as “the size of some bacteria”. A few bacteria are this size, and I've spent a large part of my career researching them. But your average bacterium is less than a tenth as large.

Issue no. 3214 published 26 January 2019

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