Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)

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    2 months ago

    Since the graphic claims microchips are made out of “sand”, I will call silica “sand”. To get a spoon full of “sand”, some random internet sources suggests that it would weigh about 33g, and apparently oats is quite dense in “sand”, so youd need about 176 kg of oats, or about 27,000 spoonfulls of oats to satisfy your diet of “sand”. Impressive!

    (Or maybe you just eat it raw as a anti-caking agent?)

            • threelonmusketeers
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              12 months ago

              But for small amounts, particle size and container shape can have an effect, no?

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                12 months ago

                Container shape is important for small amounts and error from particle size scales linearly with the amount.

                If we’re talking cooking flours, particle size tends to be somewhat uniform, and container shape don’t make much of a difference, humidity being the heavy hitter when it comes to density variation.

    • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D
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      02 months ago

      Best thing to make out of sand is triangles or hexagons that can perform collaborative energy transactions, like bees.