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Old 10-05-18 | 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by wphamilton
Now that's weird. Green fruit, lawyers and moles.

Which got me wondering about something. Since we all ride through air and he rides through Avogadro's number or one mole of it, how far would that be if you took all of the air molecules in a mole and laid them out in a line, each just touching the next?

I calculated it out, but the number is so big that I'm not saying and I'm pretty sure that indyfabz is fibbing.
Since the zombie has arisen and no one bit on this, my answer is 135 million million miles, or barely over 7 parsecs. If you took all of indyfabz' mole of air, and laid the O2 and N2 molecules touching each other in a line, that's how long the line is. Unless my arithmetic is off, because that still seems like a long way.

For reference, that's 28 grams of air.
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