How Long Is Rice grain? 7 mm (0.28 in) Compared | Magnitudle

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Rice grain (7 mm) drawn to scale beside a raindrop (2 mm) and a large coin (2.4 cm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Raindrop (2 mm), Rice grain (7 mm) and Large coin (2.4 cm).

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How big is that, really?

About 3 would fit across a large coin
About 3.5× the width of a raindrop
About 14× the width of a grain of sand
About 61× the width of a human egg cell

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Facts about Rice grain

A rice grain is the seed of a grass species, and its hull is removed during milling to produce brown or white rice.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Rice”; USDA FoodData Central, “Rice, white, long-grain, regular, raw”

Food & Drink

Name	Size	Compared with Rice grain
Lentil	4 mm (0.16 in)	0.57×
Rice grain	7 mm (0.28 in)	this page
Pea	8 mm (0.31 in)	1.1×
Chickpea	8 mm (0.31 in)	1.1×
Coffee bean	9 mm (0.35 in)	1.3×
Corn kernel	1.2 cm (0.47 in)	1.7×
Blueberry	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	2.1×
Sunflower seed	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	2.1×
Grape	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.9×
Cherry	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.9×

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