The world in your spoon!

Which is more – the number of atoms in a teaspoon of water or the number of teaspoons in the atlantic ocean?

For the chemistry (and MATH) lovers in the house,

1 mole of water = 18 ml water (oxygen is 16 and two atoms of hydrogen with 1)

1 ml water = 0.05556 mol of water

1 mol water = 6.023 × 10²³ molecules

1 molecule of water consists of = 3 atom ( 2 H + 1 O )

therefore,

1 mol water = 3 × 6.023 × 10^²³ atoms

0.05556 mol water = 0.05556 × 3 × 6.023 × 10^23 atoms = 1.004 × 10²³ atoms

1 ml water contains 1.004 × 10²³ atoms.

One teaspoon is 4.92892 ml which has 4.95 × 10²³ atoms.

Now, the volume of the Atlantic ocean is 354,700,000 km³

Volume of a teaspoon is 4.92892 ml or 4.92892 × 10^-15 km³

Number of teaspoons in the atlantic ocean is 0.72 × 10²³ WHICH IS LESS THAN 6 TIMES OF THE ATOMS IN YOUR TEASPOON OF WATER. WOOOHOOOOO.

Extra fun fact!

If we laid down end to end each water molecule from a teaspoon down end to end, we end up with a length of 50 billion km — 10 times the width of our solar system.