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View submission: What If?: Ink Molecules
or have you heard?
6.02 times ten to the...
Twenty-third~*
Avogadro has haunted me since 8th grade. Molecules of water in a 10x10x10cm volume
Comment by elperroborrachotoo at 24/07/2014 at 08:52 UTC
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A mole of moles[1], one of my favorites.
1: https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
*Plumes of hot meat and bubbles of trapped gases like methane—along with the air from the lungs of the deceased moles—periodically rise through the mole crust and erupt volcanically from the surface, a geyser of death blasting mole bodies free of the planet*
Comment by agamemnon42 at 24/07/2014 at 20:04 UTC
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Avogadro's number was the source of my worst experience at an academic quiz bowl type thing. I forget how the question was worded, but the answer was 6.02 * 10^23, which I gave. The "judge" looked at his card, and informed us that no, the correct answer was 6.02 * 1023.