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What are you even talking about?
by crooked-v 2y ago
What are you even talking about?
- dyauspitr 2y agoThey found some brains have 1% of plastic in them by weight. 1% of the human brain by weight is 14g. A solid 14g plastic ball is 1.2 inches in diameter which is about the size of a golf ball.
- squigz 2y ago[flagged]
- mlyle 2y agoMost plastic is like 1.5 grams/cm^3; that's like 9 cubic centimeters, or less than 1/4 the volume of a golf ball. When you're saying "about" and then cubing the number you can have a pretty significant difference.
- dyauspitr 2y agoAverage density of plastic is closer to 1.2g/cm3 which is what I was using.
- mlyle 2y agoYou'd only be off by a factor of 3 instead of 4, then. In any case, comparing it to a solid ball isn't so useful. Even the idea of "density" for something that is dispersed as small particles isn't too useful; proportion of mass is really the only useful metric.
- aroo39 2y agoThis is not correct. A golf ball is closer to 1.7 inches in diameter, which is nearly three times the size of a 1.2 inch diameter ball in terms of volume.