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I'm confused, the blog wrote "known amount of water," so was it a closed little area like a bathtub? If you added a ton of oil wouldn't it spread out as much as

I'm confused, the blog wrote "known amount of water," so was it a closed little area like a bathtub? If you added a ton of oil wouldn't it spread out as much as possible aka 600 molecules thick or whatever? Or did he pour it into a huge lake or something?

Cheer2171 2y ago
One drop in a soup bowl sized petri dish, measure the area it covers.
- komali2 2y ago
  Surely the first thing to test would be dropping it in increasingly large soup bowls until there's obvious gaps?
  - kqr 2y ago
    How would the gaps be obvious? I'm not sure I could tell 1 molecule from 0 molecules when it comes to the thickness of oil film.
MereInterest 2y ago
My understanding is that the actual body of water was larger, but that the oil would only spread out to one molecule of thickness. So you start with a larger area of water, and measure the diameter of the resulting oil slick.