Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Geek-out over a shaving brush

Each morning I use a shaving brush.  At the end of the shave I shake it out and put it in its rack.  The next day it is dry.  In a geek-out I became curious.  How many molecules per second are required to dry it in 24 hours?

My kitchen scale showed that the we brush contained 12 g of water.

Before I show the calculations, I will give the result.  4.63E+18 molecules leave the brush every second.  This is a large number.  It means there are 18 places to the left of the decimal point. How large.  Well it is a billion billion.  One billion seconds is 31 years.  Someone has another way to look at it  - it is in the same level as the number of grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth -- and this is just in one second!!
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If you are still paying attention, here are my calculations for the shaving brush evaporation.



Water weight on brush (g)12.00
Molecular wt. of water18.00
moles of water0.66
Avgadro's Number6.00E+23
Number of Molecules4.00E+23
Seconds in day86,400.00
Molecules per second4.63E+18




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