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How would we know how many atoms are in the sample? By
measuring the mass?
That would be pretty silly, wouldn't it?
Volume?
You could answer this yourself pretty easily:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mass+silicon+site%3Anist.gov
which leads immediately to things like
http://physics.nist.gov/Divisions/Div842/Gp5/crystalc.html
and
http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/ex1/room6b.html