This is my NaCl unit cell.
Length and Width in cm.: 4 X 4 X 4
nanometers: 4,000,000 X 4,000,000 X 4,000,000
angstroms: 40,000,000 X 40,000,000 X 40,000,000
meters: .004 X .004 X .004
Mass: .00031 grams
Moles: 5.3 e^-6 moles
Molecules in one cube of NaCl: 3.19 e18 molecules
Dimensions of a cube of NaCl: 629603nm X 629603nm X 629603nm
Number of unit cells in a cube: 4.5 e18 unit cells
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Describing a mole of atoms and 10 nm
The purpose of this post is to describe 10 nm and 1 mole of atoms.
10 nanometers is a tiny measurement. A human hair is 40,000 nanometers wide and if we blew that size up to the size of an airsoft bb, which is 1/2 a centimeter wide, that would stretch it out to 20,000 centimeters which would stretch halfway around a running track.
1 mole of atoms is the number of atoms it takes to create a certain weight. Say you took a penny and a quarter and tried to weigh them on a bathroom scale. You can't do that effectively so instead you take 1,000 quarters and 1,000 pennies and weighed them on the bathroom scale. You can see a different weight for each of those weights. 1 mole equals the weight of both the pennies and the quarters at that selected number.
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