If you had a mole of sheets of paper stacked on top of each other, how many round trips to the Moon could you make?

Answer 1

Hi Joan L., if the thickness of a normal sheet of paper is 0.1 mm and the moon is ~ 384.4E6 m away, round trip of 2*384.4E6 m = 768.8E6 m then :

(6.022E23 * 1E-4 m) / 768.8E6 = 7.9E12 round trips. Slightly less than 8 trillion trips.

This gives some context to how big Avogadro's number is.

A glass of water contains more atoms than all the grains of sand on all the beach's in the world.

I hope this helps, Joe.