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TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There are definitely more hydrogen atoms in a mole of water than stars in the Milky Way.

The Milky Way has somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars according to Wikipedia (110^11 to 410^11). A mole of water has 6.02210^23 molecules in it, each of which has two hydrogen atoms in it for a total of 1.204410^24 hydrogen atoms.

10^24 / 10^11 = 10^13 which is ten trillion. So, a mole of water has roughly ten trillion times as many hydrogen atoms as the Milky Way has stars.

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