How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
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How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’If 1000 sheets of paper
are 10 cm high
’How tall would a mole of
paper be?
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How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
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’Would the pile of paper reach the moon?
’Closest distance to the moon is 360,000 km!
’If 1000 sheets is 10 cm tall
23
21
’Then 6.02 x 10 sheets is 6.02 x 10 cm tall
’1 mole of paper would be 6.02 x 10 19 m tall
’1 mole of paper would be 6.02 x 10 16 km tall!
How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
6.02 x 10 16 km of paper and 3.6 x 10 5 km to the moon
That would be
1.5 x 10 11 trips to the moon!
But how big is that??
What about a larger distance?
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How Big is a Mole
6.02 x 10 23
’The distance to the sun is about 1.46 x 10 8 km
16
’1 mole of paper would be 6.02 x 10 km high
8
’That’s piled to the sun 4 x 10 times!
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How Big is a Mole
6.02 x 10 23
’How much of the earth
would be covered by the
piles of paper stretching to
the sun??
’The area of one sheet of
paper is 600 cm 2
2
’Or 0.06 m for each sheet
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How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’The radius of the earth is 6.4 x10 3 km
’The area of the earth’s surface is 5.1 x 10 8 km2
’To cover the entire surface of the earth would
take 8.6 x 10 9 sheets of paper
’To make 4 x 10 8 piles to reach the sun would
cover 4.7% of the surface of the earth!
How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’Paper in stacks piled as
high as the sun would
cover 4.7% of the earth
’North America is 4.8% of
the surface of the earth!
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How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’What if the entire surface of the earth was
covered with paper??
’8.6 x 10 9 sheets would cover the earth
’7 x 10 13 sheets in each pile
’7 x 10 6 km high
’That’s 17 times farther than the moon!
How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’What about a greater
distance?
’Our nearest star is alpha
centauri
13
’It’s 4.15 x 10 km to alpha
centauri!
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How Big is a Mole??
6.02 x 10 23
’One mole of paper
16
is 6 x 10 km high
’Alpha Centauri is
4.35 light years
away
’1 mole of paper
would reach Alpha
Centauri 1450
times!
Our sun as seen from Alpha Centauri
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