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Graphene has a C-C bond length of 1.42 Å.
(a) Suppose you deposit a single layer of graphene around the entire earth, which has a diameter of 1.27 × 10^7 m. What would be the mass of this graphene layer?
(b) If the graphite in a wooden pencil has a mass of 60 g, what surface area could it cover, if it would be exfoliated as a single layer of graphene?