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You explain to a friend what you have learned about Avogadro's number.Your friend thinks the number is so large that he doubts there is even a mole of living cells on the Earth.You have recently heard that there are about 50 trillion (5 × 1013) human cells in each adult human body and that each human body carries more bacterial cells (the microbiome) than human cells, and the human population is approximately 7.6 billion (7.6 × 109).Armed with this information, you bet your friend $5 that there is more than a mole of cells on Earth.Write out the calculation that proves you are correct.

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Avogadro's number, or 6 × 1023, is the num...

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