[WikiEN-l] More on mole molars

Tue May 17 22:31:39 UTC 2005

> 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.

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