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- How much volume do you think 100 average size peas would take up?
- They would occupy approximately one cubic inch.
- (Although personally, I think you may need to mush them together to make them fit)
- How much volume do you think a million peas would occupy?
- Approximately the volume of an average house (do not try this at home)
- Yes an entire house from the basement to the attic full of peas
- About 1000 houses (the size of a medium size town.
- But are we even close to a mole of peas?
- Oh no – not even close!
- That is a lot of peas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Enough to fill all the buildings in Mississauga!
- NO
- Not yet
- Well that would be enough peas to cover the entire province of Ontario with peas nearly 4 feet deep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- But still not even close to a mole of peas
- I am sorry I could not find a photo of Ontario covered in 4 feet of peas
- Yes this is a real number!
- This would be enough peas to cover all the continents of the world with peas 4 feet deep. Imagine North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, all covered with 4 feet of peas!!!!!!!
- Still not close to a mole of peas
- Imagine 250 planets the size of the Earth completely covered with 4 feet of peas.
- This would be a mole of peas
- Give or take a few peas of course
- How many peas would I have if they were the same as the number of atoms in my body???????????????????????????
- A cotillion peas (1 x 1027)
- Would be 4 feet deep
- And cover 250,000 planets the size of earth!!!!!!!!!!
- Wow a mole is a really big number then.
- So everything that contains a mole of atoms must be really big right????
- Because atoms are very small!