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13.3 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

(a) What is the volume (in km3\text{km}^{3}) of Avogadro’s number of sand grains if each grain is a cube and has sides that are 1.0 mm long? (b) How many kilometers of beaches in length would this cover if the beach averages 100 m in width and 10.0 m in depth? Neglect air spaces between grains.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 13.3 The Ideal Gas Law, exercise 17

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