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A typical sugar cube has an edge length of 1 cm. if you had a cubical box that contained a mole of sugar cubes, what would its edge length be? (one mo

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1mol=6.02*10^23 units or something


so that is the volume
v=side^3

6.02*10^23=side^3
cube root both sides
∛6.02*(10^(23/3))≈8.44369*10^7

so the edge length would be about 84436877.3356756850163167551031 inches per side

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