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majewsky on July 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you put chalk under a powerful microscope

> A carbon atom is 0.3 nm in diameter, so only about 3.3 million can fit in 1 mm.

Sure, but about 70 quintillion of them fit in 1 mm^3.

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