[R-390] The mole

[Tom Bridgers]

Frankly I thought you were all confused.  Somehow in my mind you meant to 
say Smoots -- the unit of measurement of the Harvard Bridge (precisely 364.4 
smoots and one ear) in Boston made famous by MIT students.
But now I see it is I who is confused -- which is pretty much my normal 
state anyway.

Now that I think about it I vaguely remember studying the Mole in chemistry 
class at NC State Univ. -- but I agree with Al Parker.  I knew about as much 
about it then as I know now.

73's,
-Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Loken" <richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca>
To: "Roy Morgan" <roy.morgan at nist.gov>
Cc: <kgordon2006 at verizononline.net>; <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] The mole


> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Roy Morgan wrote:
>
>> "... 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."
>
> And here I thought it was the number of cells is one standard sized flower
> nosed mole.  That would a metric mole. I am sure there is standard sized
> solid silver flower nosed mole in a vault some where in Paris which
> scientists can use to check the size of the mole they captured on the
> lawns of the Sorbonne.
>
> You mean I was wrong?
>
> And what's this 1980 stuff?  My chemistry teacher was using the word
> "mole" long before 1980.
>
> -- 
>   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  : "Anybody can be a 
> father
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