[R-390] The mole

[Al Parker]

no clearer to me now than it was when in college (long time ago)
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Morgan" <roy.morgan at nist.gov>
> Folks,
> At:
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/mole.html
> we find:
>
> "... the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the CIPM 
> gave in 1967, and confirmed in 1969, a definition of the mole, eventually 
> adopted by the 14th CGPM (1971):
> 1. The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many 
> elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12; its 
> symbol is "mol."
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