A drop of olive oil, whose volume is 0.12 mm3, was placed on a surface of clean water.The oil spread and formed a patch of...

      

A drop of olive oil, whose volume is 0.12 mm3, was placed on a surface of clean water.
The oil spread and formed a patch of area 6.0 × 104 mm2. Estimate the size of the olive oil.

  

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Mutiso
Volume = 0.12 mm3
Area of the oil patch = 6.0 × 104 mm2
Volume = area × thickness of the patch, therefore
Thickness of the oil patch = volume / area
= 0.12 / 6.0 × 104 = 2.0 × 10-6 mm or 2.0 × 10-9 m
Mutiso answered the question on October 11, 2018 at 18:33


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