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minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThat’s why I keep a roll of 20 AWG nichrome on hand. Spool off 9.7195853528209 feet and it’ll be bang on.
minus-squareLv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoSo 1 inch of your wire would weigh ~0.0987 grams, so to measure down to 8.6350242338508 inches of wire your scale would need to weigh down to ~0.00000000000007 grams. Which is the weight of about a dozen atoms or so.
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah which is why you use a Kibble balance. Are you sure you’re cut out for this kind of work?
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That’s why I keep a roll of 20 AWG nichrome on hand. Spool off 9.7195853528209 feet and it’ll be bang on.
So 1 inch of your wire would weigh ~0.0987 grams, so to measure down to 8.6350242338508 inches of wire your scale would need to weigh down to ~0.00000000000007 grams. Which is the weight of about a dozen atoms or so.
Yeah which is why you use a Kibble balance. Are you sure you’re cut out for this kind of work?