Remember Lucretius this Mole Day
Today is Mole Day. This is a celebration of a number, called Avagadro’s number, that chemists use to keep track of the fact that atoms are really small. In 12g of carbon for example, there are 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. This is Avagadro’s number. There is the same number of atoms in 207g of lead. This […]
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