alt Hacker NewsI'm quite confused by some of the units used in the article. For example:
> A couple of grams of MOF-5 holds an area as big as a football pitch
grams are of course a measure of mass, and a football pitch is presumably a measure of 2d space. Does anyone have any idea how these relate? I can imagine some heavily modified form of this making sense, such as: a couple of grams of MOF-5 is able to contain the amount of gas that would fill a standard football stadium at 1 atmosphere of pressure, but that amount of mangling seems unreasonable.
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mr_toad • yesterday at 2:01 PM
Imagine a very very thin blanket the size of a football pitch scrunched into a very small ball.
It's the internal surface area. Like saying 10 grams of Swiss cheese has X surface area in its holes on average.