• Question: Can you see vitamins under a microscope and are they bigger or smaller than bacteria?

    Asked by anon-181914 on 25 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Claire Donald

      Claire Donald answered on 25 Jun 2018:


      Vitamins are much smaller than bacteria. Vitamins are chemical compounds while bacteria are single celled organisms. The average bacteria is around 1 um (0.000001m) while Vitamins would be around 0.1 nm (0.0000000001m)

    • Photo: Joey Shepherd

      Joey Shepherd answered on 26 Jun 2018:


      You can’t see vitamins under a microscope, as they are chemical compounds as Claire said. If you *could* they would be much, much smaller than bacteria!

    • Photo: Lauren Burns

      Lauren Burns answered on 29 Jun 2018:


      Great question! Bacteria are full-on life forms while vitamins are just another word for ‘useful chemical for the body’, so bacteria are definitely bigger.

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