Happy Mole Day!

[Warren]

On October 23rd, from 6:02AM to 6:02PM, the world will be celebrating Mole Day! If you have no clue on what Mole Day is, a "mole" in chemistry is the number of hydrogen molecules in 1 gram, so 1 mole (1mol) equals 6.02x10^23. So you can see the date comes from it. 6:02 on 10/23. It's like Pi Day, March 14th. Anyway,

[James S]

YEAH! Chem Association has a club meeting today! Woop!

[Warren]

Some REALLY bad Mole Day jokes courtesy of moleday.org-

Q: On which American mountain was Avogadro's face carved in stone?
A: Mount Rushmole

Q: How would you describe Avogadro's room while he was a teenager?
A: A Molar mess

Q: What are mammoles?
A: Four-legged animoles

Q: What area did Avogadro explore?
A: The South Mole

Q: What did Avogadro call his church service?
A: Molar Mass

Q: How did Avogadro get through the desert?
A: He rode on a camole

Q: What are school holidays for mole students?
A: Mole Day, October 23 and Mole-oween

Q: What line from Shakespeare do high school moles have to memorize?
A: "To mole or not to mole, this is the question."

Q: What sugar do moles prefer?
A: Mole-tose

Q: How much does Avogadro exaggerate?
A: He makes mountains out of mole hills

Q: What element do moles love to study in chemistry?
A: Molybdenum

Q: What are moles made of?
A: Molecules

Q: What kind of make-up does the mole wear on his eyelashes?
A: Molescara

Q: What happens when a mole bites a dog?
A: He becomes Moleicious!

Q: What is a mole's favorite soup?
A: Molestrone

Q: What did the mole say to the cow?
A: Molek does a body good!


I know they're horrible, but I actually like the one about molybdenum, LOL!

[James S]

... wait! Those aren't JOKES! They're just "mole" in the place of other synonyms!

[Warren]

...and that's why they are SOOOO bad!

[sponge]

LOCK THIS THREAD! ;P

[Michael Y]

or do you mean MOLE it?

(Ha ha ha... NO)

But seriously, though, this should be locked before it becomes a pit of total insanity.

[James S]

I agree, Molechael Walker!

(ha ha ha.. NO)

[sandmann]

Did you know that if a mole of snowflakes covered the entire earth equally we'd be buried under something like 3 miles of snow at every point? That's crazy!


Yeah I remember that from chem last year.

[Jadam]

nooooooo but i just have too!

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[johannpublic]

[Warren]

[damian]

[Gautam]

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| This is how we learn chemistry in our school

[Warren]

LOL! At least that cartoon is funny!

I still don't like using moles, because 1 mol of oxygen and 1 mol of helium are two different things. What does a mole really equal? Yeah, it's 6.02x10^23, but what does that mean? Right now, I'm trying to figure out how many atoms are in 1 g of uranium-235. Is it (6.02x10^23)/235 = 2.6x10^21? I think that's the answer, but not sure. Just, my question is how do you convert amu, mol, and grams around? Well, I have chemistry tomorrow, we're continuing moles.

As for my sig (even though no one asked about it...), it means that 50kg of uranium-235 is the supercritial mass required for total nuclear fission (alpha particle hits u-235 nucleis, breaks into 2 pieces and released 2-3 neutrons, who smash into more atoms causing a chain reaction) of all the atoms in 1 microsecond (0.0000001s), or in other words, the formula for an atomic bomb .