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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> 6.0 10^23 Number of atoms in 12 g of Carbon-12.
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>> You realize why this number is important, right? :-)
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> What, Avagadro's number? (Or however the hell you spell it...)
Yes. You know why anyone cares about Avagadro's number? I.e., what the basic
thing it's measuring is?
> Wait - you know what a group is, right?
Vaguely. I'd have to look up the definition again to be sure I'm not
confusing it with a ring or field or something. My higher-level alegbra is
way old. :-)
>>> 4 10^68 Number of H atoms in a "typical" galaxy.
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>>> 4 10^41 Kg Mass of a "typical" galaxy.
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>> 68-23=45 45-3=42. One power of ten missing.
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> I fail.
No, it just means that either measurements are very sloppy, that "typical"
means something different in those sentences, or there's 10x times as much
mass in a galaxy as their is mass in the H atoms of the galaxy. Which isn't
completely impossible - see "giant black holes", "dark matter",
"relativity", etc.
> I'm fairly sure it's rest mass, yes. Basically, number of atoms times
> mass of an atom.
Yeah. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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