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LESSON 1 · What Everything Is Made Of

PAUSE TO THINK

How much would a teaspoon of pure nuclear material weigh?

About a billion tonnes

Neutron stars are made of matter compressed to nuclear density, with almost all the empty space squeezed out of atoms. A single teaspoon of that material, brought to Earth, would weigh on the order of a billion tonnes.

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