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minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·edit-24 天前That’s why I keep a roll of 20 AWG nichrome on hand. Spool off 9.7195853528209 feet and it’ll be bang on.
minus-squareLv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 天前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.
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 天前Yeah which is why you use a Kibble balance. Are you sure you’re cut out for this kind of work?
minus-squareLv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 天前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!
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 天前Its akin to having an electon microscope in your kitchen
minus-squareOpisek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 天前We move onto the next issue. How to precisely measure the length of the wire?
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 天前Eyeball it. Gotta squint right tho.
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 天前If you trust the gauging, you weigh it.
That’s why I keep a roll of 20 AWG nichrome on hand. Spool off 9.7195853528209 feet and it’ll be bang on.
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.
Yeah which is why you use a Kibble balance. Are you sure you’re cut out for this kind of work?
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!
Its akin to having an electon microscope in your kitchen
We move onto the next issue. How to precisely measure the length of the wire?
Eyeball it. Gotta squint right tho.
With an ohm meter?
If you trust the gauging, you weigh it.
With a 6 digit voltmeter