• Question: how many atoms would it take to weigh the titanic?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Edward Hughes

      Edward Hughes answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking. But I can tell you roughly how many iron atoms would be needed to weigh the same as the whole Titanic. By my workings it would be about 10^33 atoms!

      In words that’s a million billion billion billion atoms of iron.

      By the way, most of that number comes because atoms are really small, rather than because the Titanic was really big!

    • Photo: Naomi Osborne

      Naomi Osborne answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      No point in me working this out….I think we can rely on the physicist’s calculation 🙂

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