General Chemistry: Atoms First
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Author: John E. McMurry, Robert C. Fay
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 0, Problem 0.42SP
The Vehicle Assembly Building at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is the largest building in the world, with a volume of 3,666,500 in3. Express this volume in scientific notation.
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