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Cormac Lawler wrote:
On 5/17/05, dpbsmith@verizon.net dpbsmith@verizon.net 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)?
You're thinking of Avocado's Number, named after the famous lawyer.
Two avocados is a yotta molecules (if you interpret "yotta" in the "binary prefix" sense of 2^80 rather than 10^24).
A mole is a small burrowing animal in the family Talpidae, and their dentition does include molars.
So, in other words, it's the number of avocados it takes to fill a mole?
6.022 * 10^23
That's a pretty big mole..
Or a very small avocado :)
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