Happy Mole Day!

[PVTCaboose1337]

6.02 x 10 23

[zekrahminator]

I remember doing that in chemistry with my (at that time) pregnant chemistry teacher. We barely got anything done, we pretty much spent the whole class talking about her baby :laugh:. Add 7 class clowns in one room at the same time, and that class was a joke.

[PVTCaboose1337]

We made moles for our class, chem as well... so strange.

[i_am_mustang_man]

6.0221415 E23 1/mol

i use this number bout a gazillion times a day

[wtf8269]

I'm taking physics my junior year instead of chemistry, but all my friends had to do this. Found out that the college I want to go to requires four years of science so I pretty much screwed myself over. I'll be taking chemistry with a bunch of juniors when I'll be a senior.

[DaMulta]

I'm lost

[i_am_mustang_man]

if you think about how small an atom is, we can't really conceive it spatially, much less use it in everyday experiments (not everyone has colliders)

so avogadro, a scientist, came up a number for which we could use as a basis for having handleable amounts of chemicals. the number isn't arbitrary, for example, carbon has an atomic mass of ~12 atomic mass units (that's the unit, not easy to use, but wait). avogadro figured out that if you have 6.0221415 x 10^23 atoms of Carbon, you will have ~12g of carbon. therefore we can determine the amount of atoms we are dealing with in an experiment, without just having to weight it.

[POGE]

We have an extra credit project we can do in chem, where you make a mole, as in the furry creature. It has to have a joke in it. Mine was a stuffed mole with Michael Jacksons face, and I called it "The Molester." :p

[i_am_mustang_man]

We have an extra credit project we can do in chem, where you make a mole, as in the furry creature. It has to have a joke in it. Mine was a stuffed mole with Michael Jacksons face, and I called it "The Molester." :p

that's really funny. pics?

[POGE]

Dont have any, I turned it in today. :(

[i_am_mustang_man]

Dont have any, I turned it in today. :(

oh, this happened not in the past? awesome! get some pics!

people may not understand the unnatural love i and most chemical engineers/majors have for the mole

it's something we've used forever, it never changes units, and is called a mole, c'mon?! that's cool!

plus it's really really big :D

[Thermopylae_480]

I must admit, the mol is my favorite number. It's just so awesome. I don't get to use it much in Organic Chemistry right now, but that's ok. I'll get to use it again! It's just so massive!
Sadly enough I had forgotten this was mol day. Thanks for reminding me.

[randomperson21]

yay! i guess. made a stuffed mole for my chem class last year.