If each particle is too small to see, I surely would see something with that big of a stack. Would it be like seeing water when i cannot see individual water molecule but I see a glass of water ? Maybe like sand ? But with sand i can look closer and see grains..
I cannot figure for sure what I would see.
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You are unlikely to be able to create such a string/stack or whatever you wish to call it of a single atom thick string. If you could, you won’t see anything. The diameter of an atom is about 1/1000th the wavelength of visible light.
There is the odd case of graphene. It is planar (two dimensional) unlike your essentially one dimensional example. Graphene is a molecule/substance that is a single atom thick consisting of carbon atoms in hexagonal sheet. You can actually see graphene, although the sheet would be much more than a single atom width…
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