Geek Holiday

Oct 23, 2009 07:05

Today is the (unofficial) Chemistry holiday " Mole Day". It started at 6:02am and ends at 6:02pm. As you may or may not recall, a Mole is the amount of sustance that contains as many particles of that sustance (atoms or molecules mind you) as 12g of carbon-12. That number of molecules is defined as the Avogadro constant, which is approximately 6. ( Read more... )

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lumpyone October 23 2009, 18:48:05 UTC
Total Geekdom there! I didn't know about it but now that I do, totally going to celebrate it in style.

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