Size Duel deck / The body, cells and particles
Poliovirus
Length: diameter of the particle
about 30 nm
Range used for fair duels: 27.3 nm to 33 nm.
One of the smallest viruses.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“Hydrated native particles are 30 nm in diameter”International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses — Ninth Report,Picornaviridae: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
“30 nm particles”Portland State University — original Biology421/521 virology lecture by KennethStedman,9October2002: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
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