How to Measure Molecules
A 19th-century physicist, Lord Rayleigh, was the first to experimentally measure the size of individual molecules. He did it using little more than oil, water, and a back-of-the-envelope calculation.| press.asimov.com
A 19th-century physicist, Lord Rayleigh, was the first to experimentally measure the size of individual molecules. He did it using little more than oil, water, and a back-of-the-envelope calculation.| press.asimov.com
A single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, 60 million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know?| www.asimov.press
