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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:14 on Monday 09 May 2011, john did opine |
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thusly: |
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> Great widgets. Not sure what a Molar Mass Calculator does? Perhaps |
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> weighs your teeth?? |
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"Molar" as in the adjective describing "mole" as in "quantity of matter" as in |
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"some gigantic number of identical atoms (or maybe it's molecules)". It's a |
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very useful measure of "some quantity of stuff". |
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IIRC the gigantic number is Avogadro's number, on the order of 10^124. So one |
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mole of hydrogen would be the amount of hydrogen containing that number of |
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hydrogen atoms (or maybe it's molecules. Whatever.) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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