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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