On 5/17/05, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net <dpbsmith(a)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..