The Overwhelming Molecule

I read in a magazine this month that every cubic inch of gas, at normal temperature and pressure, contains four hundred and forty-three billions of molecules. And this result is based, so it was stated, on an actual count, one by one, of a known fraction of the molecules, much as the doorkeeper of a public building counts the visitors that enter.

I tried to get some conception of the magnitude of this number. Assuming that there are one hundred million men and women in the United States, I figured that if each one of them would give me $10,000,000,000, then I would have a billions. But if each one were to give me $4,430,000,000,000, I would then have as many dollars as there are molecules in a cubic inch of gas under normal pressure and temperature.

But this is not all, for this same scientific writer said that each one of these molecules is in mass eighteen thousand times greater than that of a single electron, and that the diameter of one molecule is fifty thousand times longer than the diameter of an electron. And God knows every minute detail of each molecule which He created.
~ Ford C. Ottman