Happy Mole Day

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6:02PM on 10/23 for those Chemists among us.

From National Day (fun website btw):

National Mole Day – October 23, 2021
October 23 between 6.02 am and 6:02pm is National Mole Day. It’s a basic chemistry algorithm, and not about those funny looking creatures called moles. It commemorates chemistry’s measuring unit called “Avogadro’s Number”. The day is celebrated as a means to bring awareness and create interest in the study of Chemistry. The day is celebrated by schools around the USA by doing mole and chemistry themed activities. In scientific terms, a mole is in relation to the molar mass of a given molecule. A mole is literally a unit of measurement to reflect an amount of a chemical substance.

Carbon has an Atomic Weight of 12.  12 Grams of Carbon is one Mole.  One Mole contains 6.02*1023rd atoms. Handy measurement when dealing with macro quantities of chemicals. Also really good for quantifying the strength of a solution - a 0.5 Molar solution of HCl

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