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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.

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lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah which is why you use a Kibble balance. Are you sure you’re cut out for this kind of work?

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- Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’m not a scientist, I’m just in IT haha
  
  I figured there was a way to measure that small of weight but I didn’t know!
  
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  - lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Its akin to having an electon microscope in your kitchen
    
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