[R-390] The mole

[rbethman]

Al (and others),

I TOO suffered through this in Nuclear Physics!

The mole is JUST as frustrating as Avogadro's Number: 6.023 X 10 -23.

Some numbers just do NOT set well with HUMAN comprehension.

Bob - N0DGN

Al Parker wrote:
> 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."
>