Happy Mole Day Everyone!!!

**pacallen** · 10-23-2001, 05:33 PM

Just a friendly Happy Mole Day to everyone out there...

Peter Allen
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pipeline109 · 10-25-2001, 07:53 PM

Some of you humans really get into this mole day stuff!

***alastairmonk*** · 10-26-2001, 08:44 AM

OK, I give up ... Mole Day ?, Worm Day ? Are these like Groundhog Day, and predict some sort of meteorological phenomenon ?!!!

Cheers,

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**pacallen** · 10-26-2001, 04:13 PM

No idea what worm day is, but mole day is actually a sorta holiday... 6.02 x 10^23 = 1 mole

http://www.moleday.com/ if you want to learn some more stuff... it's celebrated on 10-23 (10^23) and begins at 6:02 in the morning to 6:02 at night...

Thanks,
Peter Allen
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***alastairmonk*** · 10-26-2001, 06:59 PM

Thanks ! As a chemist I can appreciate the significance !

Cheers,

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pipeline109 · 10-26-2001, 04:18 PM

A mole is the amount of atoms/MOLEcules/cells/whatever to make something happen in biology or physics... it just so happens that it is always 6.02(10^23)... and 10/23 is like a science fair...
hope that clears stuff up...

Gallina Obscura
Humanity's (barely) legal alien

**b_bonnett** · 10-26-2001, 04:28 PM

This explains things better ... I was wondering if I would end up like this in a few years time! :-lol

Blair.

**rayN5432H** · 10-26-2001, 10:51 PM

LOL I don't know about anyone else, but when I had Chemistry I last year (10th grade), the teacher passed out brownies and Rice-Crispy treats!

I wish I had taken AP Chem (sort of a Chem II type class) this year, especially when I saw the Mole Day sign outside the Chem room, and since that teacher may be retiring next year. I actually liked Chem I (the math part).

Man, a mole is EVERYTHING to a chemist. You can do anything with moles, especially helpful in stoichiometry (sp?-I'm a bit rusty on that hehe) problems.

BTW, how do any of you pronounce stoichiometry. We said "stoke-e-'aw-metry."

Let's see, um, write a balanced equation, find out what you know and what you don't know, convert what you know to moles, 'MR UK' ("Mr. Uck" lol) (mole ratio-unknown:known), convert moles to desired units. Missing anything?

Ray