Biology/water molecules
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for a trivia question used for a television program - i need to know: how big are water molecules when applied to the scale of an inch? i know the number would be large, but that's o.k. - it's part of the fun of the trivia q!
thanks for your help
-jason
Size of water molecules
2.75 Angstroms (A)
1 inch = 254 000 000 angstroms
2.54x10*8 divided by 2.75 = .92x10*8 or 9.2 x 10*7
I should point out that the format does not allow for superscripts, so the asterisk (*) indicates that a superscript follows. If you don't understand superscripts, it's a way of writing very large numbers. Just count up the zeros and make it a superscript. For example, 100 can be written 1x10*2.
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