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Nerd tendencies?
At lunch, someone noticed that Chris K had a mix of Cheerios and Cocoa Puffs. The discussion evolved from there:
Which is the solute and which is the solvent, or are they both solutes in the milk?
What is the molarity of the solution in his cereal bowl?
Just how much space would a mole of Cocoa Puffs take up?
What if they hex-pack instead of cubic-pack?
Then wouldn't their gravity eventually crush them even closer together?
My calculations (they would have been back-of-an-envelope calculations, except I had no envelope, so they were just on my calculator) came up with, if they cubic-packed, they'd form a sphere about 523 km in radius.
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Which is the solute and which is the solvent, or are they both solutes in the milk?
What is the molarity of the solution in his cereal bowl?
Just how much space would a mole of Cocoa Puffs take up?
What if they hex-pack instead of cubic-pack?
Then wouldn't their gravity eventually crush them even closer together?
My calculations (they would have been back-of-an-envelope calculations, except I had no envelope, so they were just on my calculator) came up with, if they cubic-packed, they'd form a sphere about 523 km in radius.
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