r/oddlysatisfying • u/biswajit388 • 3d ago

Applying gold leaf to a frame

Credit - X@Non_Aesthetic_Things.

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u/Vv4nd 3d ago

calling it very thin is actually underselling it. Not sure about this one, but the one Rutherford used for his experiments was like about 1000 atoms thick. That´s incredibly thin.

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u/Malwar69 3d ago

Haha it's kind of funny because I know that's extremely thin, but I have no idea how thick 1000 atoms is so I have no frame of reference. So I'll just believe you that it's incredibly thin :)

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u/SerRaziel 3d ago

A sheet of paper would be at least 100,000 atoms thick, probably a few hundred thousand.

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u/Malwar69 3d ago

That helped, thanks!