On 5/17/05, Richard Rabinowitz rickyrab@eden.rutgers.edu wrote:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jim Trodel wrote:
On 5/17/05, Richard Rabinowitz rickyrab@eden.rutgers.edu wrote:
Speaking of explosives, should we talk of chemical measures in terms of moles (units consisting of a certain number of molecules, the number of which has slipped my mind at this moment)?
My memory is 6.022 x 10^23
Why such a weird number, anyway?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro%27s_number
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