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Neutron stars are incredibly dense. Describe a neutron star in terms of a sugar cube.

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A neutron star has a density 3 E^17 kg/m^3. One sugar cube is half an inch (1.27 cm) long per side. Which makes the volume of the sugar cube to be 2.05 E^-6 m^3. If the sugar cube has the density of a neutron star, the total mass it should contain is 615 billion kg.

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