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Analogies for the Mole
How big is a mole?
- one mole of peas is enough to cover Earth and 250 more planets the
same size as Earth one metre deep in green peas
- a stack of one mole of pennies is tall enough to reach Proxima
Centauri (the second closest star to Earth) and back again 7448
times
- a mole of marbles spread over the Earth would cover it to a depth
of 80 km
- if you own a mole of dollars and you spend a billion dollars a
day, then you could spend that amount per day for over a trillion
years before you run out of money. (Earth has only been around for
4.5 billion years i.e. that's 0.45% of a trillion years!)
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