How many molecules in a drop of water???

I emailed Apologia and asked them approximately how many molecules of water would be in a drop on the end of one's finger.

Their reply:

"An average size drop of water has about 0.05 ml, and a drop of that size would have 1.7x10^21 molecules."

That's 1,700,000,000,000,000,000,000!

God's creation is AMAZING!!!

Amazing 9-Layer Density Tower!

Amazing!  We did something similar in General Science Module 1, but this is fantastic.  And way prettier.  =)

Source of pic, with instructions and explanation
Used with permission from Steve Spangler

Video demo of how to do this experiment.


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Water Molecules!

While searching for videos for Physical Science Module 5 today, I came across these that go great with Module 4!
Embedding into a website is disabled, so you will have to click these links to watch them.
They have also been added to the Physical Science Module 4 post.

• Water Molecules - part 1 is a great video animation that shows that water molecules are polar, and will hydrogen bond.  Hydrogen bonding is what enables water (H2O) to stay in a liquid form at room temperature (instead of a gas like other H2__ substances).

• Water Molecules - part 2 shows the state of water molecules in liquid form, as a solid, and as a gas.


Basically atoms and elements are the same thing. 

An atom is just the smallest amount of an element.

Read this ice cream analogy.