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lordnacho on Aug 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: This Can’t Go On

Surely an underestimate? Avogadro's number is something like 6x10e23 IIRC.

sigio on Aug 4, 2021 | [–]

Major underestimate, it's more like 1.8 * 10^24 or, if you prefer, 1.8 million billion billion....

See: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=atoms+in+a+18+grams+of...

loeg on Aug 5, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, sorry, I screwed up. 10^23 != 2^23...

We're not running short of atoms.

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