[WikiEN-l] More on mole molars

Wed May 18 01:35:40 UTC 2005

Avogadro. You're thinking of either a fruit or a Spanish lawyer.....

UtherSRG

On 5/17/05, dpbsmith at verizon.net <dpbsmith at 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.
> 
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