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Grain of rice
A kind of rice · also called Rice grain, Rice kernel
About
A staple food for billions, a single grain of rice is roughly the length of a small housefly.
Rice varieties differ noticeably in size, typically grouped into short, medium, and long-grain types. Short grains can be nearly round, while long grains like basmati are much more slender. Despite each grain weighing a tiny fraction of an ounce, global production reaches hundreds of millions of tons each year. It takes tens of thousands of individual grains to fill a standard two-pound bag.
From Wikipedia
Rice is a cereal grain and, in its domesticated form, is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Africa and Asia. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa —or, less commonly, Oryza glaberrima.
Read more on Wikipedia →Text from Wikipedia’s “Rice” article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- How big is a grain of rice?
- A typical grain of rice is about 0.28 inches (0.007 m) long, 0.08 inches (0.002 m) thick, and weighs around 0.0007 ounces (0.00002 kg). That makes it about the same length as an ordinary housefly.
Weight
0.00071 oz (20 mg)
- Length
- 0.276 in (7 mm)
- Height
- 0.079 in (2 mm)
Quick answer
A typical grain of rice is about 0.28 inches (0.007 m) long, 0.08 inches (0.002 m) thick, and weighs around 0.0007 ounces (0.00002 kg). That makes it about the same length as an ordinary housefly.
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