[R-390] The mole

[Al Parker]

Hi Tom,
You went to State?  I thought you were a Tarheel.
    How're things out your way?
73,
Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Bridgers" <Tarheel6 at msn.com>
To: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] The mole


> 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
>>   Athabasca University                            :  but you have to earn
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>> 'daddy'"
>>   ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca **             :  - Lynn Johnston
>>
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