Today, chemistry students and nerds everywhere celebrate Mole Day with stuffed animals, cakes, t-shirts and a whole lot of puns and bad jokes. In this case, a mole isn't referring to the cute ...

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Contrary to what some may think, Mole Day is not about the small animals known as moles. Instead, it revolves around a scientific unit of measurement called the "mole," which represents an amount of a ...

Contrary to the beliefs of generations of chemistry students, Avogadro’s number—the number of particles in a unit known as a mole—was not discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856). Avogadro was a ...