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50 drops of oil have a volume of 1.0 cubic cm. If a drop of oil forms an oil patch of diameter 20cm, determine...

50 drops of oil have a volume of 1.0 cubic cm. If a drop of oil forms an oil patch of diameter 20cm, determine the size of the oil molecule.

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denis
if 50 drops have 1cubic cm
then one drop will have 1/50 =0.02cubic cm.
oil patch with diameter 20cm has area of 22/7*10*10=314.2857sq.cm

hence the size of oilpatch = volume of oil drop/area of oil patch
=0.02/314.2857=0.00006363cm
PROFWAMALWA answered the question on May 2, 2018 at 09:21

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