Re: wOw... Can you just imagine the possibility? Check this out... wOw
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Sep 25, 2014 01:46PM
Hydrothermal Graphite Deposit Ammenable for Commercial Graphene Applications
Well Boxy there is no cubic ton LOL, cubic is volume tonnage is mass equivalent to weight in this case.
We know Albany graphite has a density of 2.25g/cubic centimeter.
There are 12 grams of carbon per mole of carbon atoms (hence the atomic #12)
1 mole of carbon atoms = 6.023E23 atom (a very big number)
so 1 cc of graphite = 2.25/12 x 6.023E23 = about 1.13E23 or about
113,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms
Now if we assume that those atom are distibuted evenly in the cubic centimeter
We then need to take the cube root of 1.13E23 = app. 48,345,881
So therefore 48.3 million 1 atom thick sheets of graphene can be stacked in 1 cm
So since 2.25 tons would have 4.83E7 sheets per cm x 100 for a meter
Therefore 1 meter would have 4.83E9 sheets of graphene
Now back to the density 1 cubic meter of Albany graphite = 2.25 tons
So 1 ton of Albany graphite could produce 1/2.25 x 4.83E9 = app. 2.15 billion, meter square, 1 atom thick sheets of graphene
Of course this is all theortical and actual yields and amounts would likely vary LOL
TP