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minus-squareNonononoki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·10 months agoHow many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?
minus-squareSmoothIsFast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·10 months ago30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.
minus-squarenyoooom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·10 months agoSo basically if you handle 1M atoms per second, it would take 95B years to process 1kg… It’s really hard to grasp those scales
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-210 months ago3.0022×10^24 atoms, to be precise.
How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?
30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.
So basically if you handle 1M atoms per second, it would take 95B years to process 1kg…
It’s really hard to grasp those scales
3.0022×10^24 atoms, to be precise.