How many atoms in a mole?
No, not the furry kind, the chemical kind. Give up? 6,022 x 1023. That’s Avagadro’s Number (a number which still inspires fear and anxiety in me … where’s my paper bag). It quantifies how many atoms are in a mole (when mass equals molecular weight). Yesterday Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro would have been 230 years old (1776). Yeah it’s geeky, but for all of us who have suffered through Chem class … that number was pretty important.
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I remember that number! I kinda liked high school chem so it doesn’t give me the shakes hehe
It’s all coming back to me now… Partial pressures, ideal gas, Bohr’s model, the metric system…
Ooh, my head.
I think there is a type of guacamole named after Avagadro now. Poor guy.
I think scary, eh?
I actually remember learing that in Chem 11 it stuck too I think my chem teacher was really good! I actually almost had an A in that class!