Mole Day Trivia

It would take over 19 million years to spend Avogadro's number of dollars if the money were spent
at the rate of one billion dollars per second.(1)

If Avogadro's number of sheets of paper were divided into a million equal piles, each pile would be
so tall that it would stretch from the Earth to the Sun and beyond. (2)

Avogadro's number of pennies placed side by side would stretch for more than a million light years.(3)

In order to obtain Avogadro's number of grains of sand, it would be necessayr to dig the entire surface of the Sahara Desert to a depth of 2 meters.(4)

Counting at a rate of one atom per second, for 48 hours per week, it would take the entire
population of the world 10 million years in order to reach Avogadro's number (5).

(1)Information gathered by T. Stretten:
http://www.lgboe.edu.on.ca/tiss/stretton/chemistry/chem1/avogad1.htm

(2) D. Kolb, "The Mole", Journal of Chemical Education, 55, 728-732, 1978.
(3) F.A. Bettelheim and J. March, Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry, 2nd
edition, New York, W.B. Saunders, 1988.
(4) Henk van Lubeck, "How to Visualize Avogadro's Number", Journal of Chemical Education,
volume 66, page 762, September 1989.
(5) W.L. Masterton, J. Slowinski and C.L. Stanitski, Chemical Principles, 6th edition, New
York, W.B. Saunders, 1985