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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Neutronium... I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn't a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?

On the order of a billion tons.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if it's a hard weight or just guesstimate to illustrate its heavy, but I always heard that a teaspoon would weigh as much as a city

[–] vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

A quick search just told me that it's been hypothesized that a teaspoon of it would weigh around 10 billion tons on Earth

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yep. Or a mountain, something like that.