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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    i do not understand how they are calculating this.

    if i learned the correct thing in chemistry, a mol of h20 is tiny (18 grams?) yet contains 6.022x10^23 molecules. it doesn't take that many mols for this number to be bigger than 10^81
    lolwat.

    10^81 / 10^23 = 10^(81 - 23) = 10^58 grams

    water is 1 gram per cc.

    1000 cc/L means 10^55 Liters of water. Divide that down to m^3, which means divide by another million.
    (1 L is 10 cm on a side, 1 m is 1000 cm on a side. which means each side increases by a factor of 100, and 100^3 is 1 million)

    So now that's 10^49 m^3 of water. :/ Lets go to (km)^3. So we'll divide by a billion.

    10^40 (km)^3 of water is a lot of water.

    The all the water on Earth is ~1.3(10)^9 (km)^3.

    So 10^81 water molecules is, ya know, like enough water for 10 thousand billion billion billion Earths.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    lolwat.

    10^81 / 10^23 = 10^(81 - 23) = 10^58 grams

    water is 1 gram per cc.

    1000 cc/L means 10^55 Liters of water. Divide that down to m^3, which means divide by another million.
    (1 L is 10 cm on a side, 1 m is 1000 cm on a side. which means each side increases by a factor of 100, and 100^3 is 1 million)

    So now that's 10^49 m^3 of water. :/ Lets go to (km)^3. So we'll divide by a billion.

    10^40 (km)^3 of water is a lot of water.

    The all the water on Earth is ~1.3(10)^9 (km)^3.

    So 10^81 water molecules is, ya know, like enough water for 10 thousand billion billion billion Earths.
    first unit is molecules, not grams

    the claim, as far as i understand it, is that 18 grams of water is equivalent to 1 mole of water, which is equivalent to 6.022x10^23 molecules of water. if that's true, it does not take that many molecules to swiftly blow past 10^81. im not saying the consensus number is wrong, but i dont understand why it's right

    according to calculations i was taught in chemistry, there are approximately 3.343x10^22 molecules of h2o in 1 gram of h2o. not to mention that's of a molecule with 3 moles of atoms

    please tell me what im doing wrong here
    Last edited by wufwugy; 12-19-2014 at 08:03 PM.

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