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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yes, I did a typy-type with chubby morning fingers

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    A85?! That's gotta be minuscule!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    with A4's divide-by-two shtick an A85 might unironically have a surface area of only like a couple atoms. it's too late in the night for me to calculate this so i pass this task onto someone else

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    So, A0 has an area of 1 m^2^ and it's halved for each next one in the series, giving A85 a surface area of 1/(2^85^) m^2^ = 2.585×10^-26^ m^2^ = 0.02585 pm^2^.

    The smallest atom is the hydrogen atom with a Van der Waals radius of 120 pm which gives it a surface area of 4×π×120^2^ pm^2^ = 180956 pm^2^ or just over 7 million times larger than the A85.

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