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michael offutt - a mole is a unit! lyrics

a mole is a unit! lyrics
[intro]
a mole is an animal that burrows in the ground
or spot on your chin that you gotta shave around
but there’s another kind of mole, of interest to me
that’s the kind of mole, they use in chemistry

[chorus]
a mole is a unit, or have you heard?
containing six times ten to the twenty+third
that’s a six with 23 zeroes at the end
much too big a number to comprehend

[verse 1]
now say you had a mole of pennies to distribute around the world
give to each of the five billion grown ups, boys and girls
there wouldn’t be a single soul down and out of luck
bеcause everybody in thе world would get a trillion bucks
or say you had a mole of paper and stacked it toward the sky
paper’s awful thin but that pile would get so high
it’d reach up into outer sp+ce, in fact i think you’d find
it’d go up to the moon and back 80 billion times

[chorus]
and a mole is a unit, or have you heard?
containing six times ten to the twenty+third
that’s a six with 23 zeroes at the end
much too big a number to comprehend
[verse 2]
now suppose a mole of marshmallows fell upon the planet
over each square inch of land and sea, do you think that you could stand it?
that layer would be 12 miles high and of course block out the sun
we’re talking close to more 5 million trillion tons
well maybe we could save ourselves if we all started eating
one marshmallow each second not two cause that’d be cheating
with 5 billion people munching, how long do you think it’d be take?
40 million years and that’s without a bathroom break

[chorus]
and a mole is a unit, or have you heard?
containing six times ten to the twenty+third
that’s a six with 23 zeroes at the end
much too big a number to comprehend

[verse 3]
let’s say you had a mole of atoms, would the pile be immense?
should i say the answer now or leave you in suspense
well atoms are so very very small you understand
you can hold a mole of atoms in the palm of your hand
so shake a little sugar in the middle of your palm
now you don’t want to spill it, so try and stay calm
you hardly can imagine and barely realize
there are more sugar molecules in that sugar than stars up in the sky
[chorus]
and a mole is a unit, or have you heard?
containing six times ten to the twenty+third
that’s a six with 23 zeroes at the end
much too big a number to comprehend

- michael offutt lyrics

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