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Cubes of food
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The diagram illustrates how surface area increases as particle size decreases for a given bite-sized piece of food. Although the particles in 3 are smaller than in 1, the total surface area available is nearly 3 times larger.
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Published: 1 July 2011,Updated: 1 July 2011Size: 96.94 KB