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I tried to come up with a calculation along the lines of "if 1.5 billion words were 1.5 billion molecules of hydrochloric acid added to 1mL of water, how strong would the acid be" but the answer ended up not being very impressive (far, far less acidic than your average rainfall). To combat this, I propose that we write 102 quintillion words this year. With 122,925 writers, this means that each novel would only have to be 830 trillion words long. Then, if each word was a molecule in 1mL of water, the resulting acid would be about as strong as stomach acid!

...for something that sounds not quite so futile, if each word were 1 nanogram of hydrochloric acid added to 100 liters of water, the resulting acid would be so strong it's off the pH scale.

I should be writing, not calculating the molarity of words,

-Xaandria